Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Add guest cpu_entitlement reporting

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/27/2012 01:23 PM, Michael Wolf wrote:
> > 
> > How would a guest know what its entitlement is?
> > 
> > 
>
> Currently the Admin/management tool setting up the guests will put it on
> the qemu commandline.  From this it is passed via an ioctl to the host.
> The guest will get the value from the host via a hypercall.
>
> In the future the host could try and do some of it automatically in some
> cases. 

Seems to me it's a meaningless value for the guest.  Suppose it is
migrated to a host that is more powerful, and as a result its relative
entitlement is reduced.  The value needs to be adjusted.

This is best taken care of from the host side.

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