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On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:18:15AM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> On 03/13/2015 07:50 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:42:25AM -0400, Steve Gordon wrote:
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: "park" <jianlonghei at gmail.com>
> >>>To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> >>>
> >>>hello Nova
> >>>
> >>>By default, nova libvirt driver configuration for guest cpu as "cpu_mode
> >>>= none",
> >>>you could add cpu features by changing flavor section as below, there
> >>>will NOT
> >>>be any issues for this cmd.
> >>>
> >>>$nova flavor-key m1.small set "capabilities:cpu_info:features"="<in> ***"
> >>>but, nova will ignore the cpu features after the guest boot up
> >>>successfully, which
> >>>means the feature does NOT take effect(not be written into the xml for
> >>>the guest).
> >>>
> >>>And there is no message telling the users that the features does NOT
> >>>take effect...
> >>>this may make the users confused...
> >>
> >>This issue is more general than the cpu_mode=none case, in that the
> >>capabilities filter is filtering *hosts* based on their CPU features.
> >>As you have discovered, whether they are actually exposing those
> >>features to guests in their current configuration is not taken into
> >>account (that is, cpu_mode/cpu_model settings aren't considered at
> >>all). Ideally they would be, but I'm not sure this is trivial.
> >
> >If you set  'cpu_mode=host-model' or 'cpu_mode=host-passthrough'
> >then it will take effect, as the guest will see the full CPU model
> >of the host that is picked. IMHO the capabilities:cpu_info:features
> >filter only makes sense when using those two cpu modes. If you
> >left the default cpu_mode=None or set cpu_mode=custom, then this
> >capabilities feature is meaningless from a conceptual POV. So the
> >fact that it has no effect on the guest CPU is not a bug it is
> >by design.
> 
> If the cpu features aren't going to be passed through into the guest, does
> it make sense for the scheduler to filter based on them?

If the admin has not enabled host-model/passthrough CPU mode, then they
should simply not set the capabilities:cpu_info:features property on the
flavours they have setup.

Regards,
Daniel
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