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[Xen-users] Re: how to congure dom0 to 1G, and domU to 1G



On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 07:08:20PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:06:37AM +0800, lei yang wrote:
> >    On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[1]pasik@xxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> >      On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:43:48PM +0800, lei yang wrote:
> >      >    On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen
> >      <[1][2]pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >      >
> >      >      On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:59:00PM +0800, lei yang wrote:
> >      >      >    On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen
> >      >      <[1][2][3]pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:59:16PM +0800, lei yang wrote:
> >      >      >      >    Hi Experts,
> >      >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      I removed xen-devel from CC since this is a very basic
> >      question,
> >      >      >      and not related to Xen development.
> >      >      >      >    I want to configure dom0 to 1g and dom0 to 1g ?
> >      >      >      >
> >      >      >      >    I know dom0_mem=1024M can do it for dom0, how about
> >      domU?
> >      >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      Uhm.. for domU you specify:
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      memory = 1024
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      in the domU configuration file (/etc/xen/<guest>).
> >      >      >      >    My machine has 8 cores
> >      >      >      >    how to  specify xen to 4 cpus?
> >      >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      Xen is the *hypervisor*, so it has to use ALL the 
> > physical
> >      >      CPUs/cores,
> >      >      >      to be able to schedule vcpus!!
> >      >      >
> >      >      >    Do you mean we can't specify xen to 4 cpus, and if we
> >      specify
> >      >      "nosmp" what
> >      >      >    does it mean
> >      >      >    it will use *just* one physical core to schedule vcpus? and
> >      dom0
> >      >      and domU
> >      >      >    just can use one core?
> >      >      >
> >      >
> >      >      Depends where you specify "nosmp", for Xen or for dom0 kernel.
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >    if I specify to nosmp to "xen", will dom0 and domU just run core
> >      one core?
> >      >
> > 
> >      I think so. Why would you want to limit everything to just one core ?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >    I want to test the xen UP mode performance. so I need to run everything
> >    just on one core. if I specify xen to "nosmp"
> >    dom0 and domU will just run on one core, how about xen? just run on one
> >    core?
> > 
> 
> I assume everything runs on a single core then.
> You can verify with "xm info". It shows what Xen hypervisor has/uses.
> 

Also check this link:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenHypervisorBootOptions

It has all the options you can specify for xen.gz in grub.conf.

-- Pasi


> 
> >    Thanks
> >    Lei
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >      >    can we now which core?
> >      >
> > 
> >      I don't think so.
> > 
> >      -- Pasi
> >      >
> >      >      Xen *has* to have access to all the physical cpus/cores you want
> >      to use
> >      >      for your guest, including dom0.
> >      >
> >      >      See Xen vcpu pinning for more information.
> >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      >    how to specify dom0 4 cpus
> >      >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      dom0_max_vcpus=4 for xen.gz in grub.conf.
> >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      >   Specified options "dom0_max_vcpus=2" and "dom0_vcpus_pin".
> >      >      >   Specified option "dom0_max_vcpus=2".
> >      >      >
> >      >      >  what's the difference? which performance will be higher?
> >      >      >
> >      >
> >      >      Adding dom0_vcpus_pin will automatically pin the dom0 vcpus to
> >      matching
> >      >      physical cpus.
> >      >      That might not make a difference alone.. you need/want to pin 
> > the
> >      other
> >      >      guest vcpus aswell,
> >      >      depending what kind of configuration you want to get.
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >    "dom0_max_vcpus=2" and "dom0_vcpus_pin".  core0 and core 1 will
> >      just used
> >      >    by  dom0? can't be used by others eg: domU?
> >      >
> >      >      -- Pasi
> >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      >  Thanks
> >      >      >  Lei
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      >    how to specify domU 5 cpus ?
> >      >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      vcpus = 5
> >      >      >      >    can we specify dom0 to 1 cpu, at same time domU to 6
> >      cpu
> >      >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      dom0_max_vcpus=1 dom0_vcpus_pin
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      in grub.conf for xen.gz.
> >      >      >      >    can we specify nosmp to xen, and then specify dom0
> >      cpu > 1?
> >      >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      No.
> >      >      >
> >      >      >      See:
> >      [2][3][4]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenBestPractices
> >      >      >      and:
> >      [3][4][5]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems
> >      >      >      -- Pasi
> >      >      >      >
> >      >      >      >
> >      >      >      >    Thanks
> >      >      >      >    Lei
> >      >      >      >
> >      >      >      >    --
> >      >      >      >    "We learn from failure, not from success!"
> >      >      >
> >      >      >    --
> >      >      >    "We learn from failure, not from success!"
> >      >      >
> >      >      > References
> >      >      >
> >      >      >    Visible links
> >      >      >    1. mailto:[5][6]pasik@xxxxxx
> >      >      >    2. [6][7]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenBestPractices
> >      >      >    3. 
> > [7][8]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems
> >      >
> >      >    --
> >      >    "We learn from failure, not from success!"
> >      >
> >      > References
> >      >
> >      >    Visible links
> >      >    1. mailto:[9]pasik@xxxxxx
> >      >    2. mailto:[10]pasik@xxxxxx
> >      >    3. [11]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenBestPractices
> >      >    4. [12]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems
> >      >    5. mailto:[13]pasik@xxxxxx
> >      >    6. [14]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenBestPractices
> >      >    7. [15]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems
> > 
> >    --
> >    "We learn from failure, not from success!"
> > 
> > References
> > 
> >    Visible links
> >    1. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> >    2. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> >    3. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> >    4. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenBestPractices
> >    5. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems
> >    6. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> >    7. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenBestPractices
> >    8. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems
> >    9. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> >   10. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> >   11. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenBestPractices
> >   12. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems
> >   13. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> >   14. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenBestPractices
> >   15. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems

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