Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:43:13 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes |
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:44:38AM -0500, Mike D. Day wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >What other, specific sysfs files are you going to want to create? > >What is the hierarchy going to look like? > >What is the contents of the file going to look like? > > You make a very good point. We have not agreed on the heirarchy and file > contents, and we need to do so before continuing. > Some _very rough_ ideas include > > /sys/xen/version/{major minor extra version build} > /sys/xen/domain/{dom0 dom1 ... domn} (each domain could be a dir. with > attributes) > /sys/xen/hypervisor/{scheduler cpu memory} > /sys/xen/migrate/{hosts_to, hosts_from} > > These will be text files with simple attrributes. Most will be > read-only. It is kind of fun to think about creating a domain by doing > something like > > cat $domain_config > /sys/xen/domain/new > > but there are some ugly aspects of doing so. Likewise it would be good > to add a potential migration host by writing an ip address to > /sys/xen/migrate/hosts_to > > Again, we need to get this solidified before going further.
Ok, feel free to come back when you get this information sorted out.
thanks,
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