[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4 of 4 V5] tools/xl: Remus - Network buffering cmdline switch
Shriram Rajagopalan writes ("Re: [PATCH 4 of 4 V5] tools/xl: Remus - Network buffering cmdline switch"): > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > Shriram Rajagopalan writes ("[PATCH 4 of 4 V5] tools/xl: Remus - Network > buffering cmdline switch"): > > tools/xl: Remus - Network buffering cmdline switch ... > Shouldn't enabling network buffering be the default ? > > Given that network buffering support is conditionally compiled into > libxl, it makes sense to let the user explicitly enable network > buffering. If network buffering was enabled by default, but libxl > was missing the feature, then running xl remus (without any option) > would immediately fail saying network buffering support is > missing. Might as well make people enable it explicitly and then > discover the lack of support for it inside libxl. Is Remus actually useable without network buffering ? I don't think we would want to change the default later, and clearly the default should be to behave correctly. > Is it really useful to have a command-line option to change the script ? > > That was added on Ian C's suggestion. It might be useful if people have > openvswitch based setups and want to tweak the network buffering setup. I think this should be a per-vif configuration option, with a default taken from the domain and/or global config. Not a command-line option. Thanks, Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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