Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH-for-4.13] libxl: choose an appropriate default for passthrough... [and 1 more messages]

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Jackson writes ("Re: [PATCH-for-4.13 v2 0/2] libxl: fix assertion failure"):
> I am continuing to look at the defaulting and config management here
> with a view to getting rid of some of the duplicated code and moving
> it all into libxl.

Specifically, Paul Durrant writes:
> Ok. Specifically libxl_domain_need_memory() only has access to the
> build info, but libxl__domain_build_info_setdefault() does not have
> access to the create info, so it can't choose a sensible default. To
> avoid re-writing lots of code I went with having xl calulate a
> default. (Prior to my patch there was no calculated overhead anyway so
> a host without shared EPT and autoballooning on was already playing
> russian roulette).

So some restructuring may be needed.  I'll see how invasive it looks.

Ian.

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