Bug 848728

Summary:	3.1 - Allow VDSM to report logical cores/threads as physical cores.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Lee Yarwood <lyarwood>
Component:	vdsm	Assignee:	Dan Kenigsberg <dkenigsb>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Pavel Stehlik <pstehlik>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.3	CC:	abaron, bazulay, chetan, cpelland, danken, iheim, ilvovsky, lpeer, michal.skrivanek, pep, ykaul
Target Milestone:	beta
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	infra
Fixed In Version:	vdsm-4.9.6-29.0	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A previous change to VDSM caused the getVdsCaps call to only return the number of physical cores on a system. Now, VDSM allows configuration of the report_host_threads_as_cores option to specify what is returned by getVdsCaps. When the report_host_threads_as_cores option is left in its default "false" value, getVdsCaps reports the number of real host cores in cpuCores. When the value is changed to "true", getVdsCaps returns the total number of hyperthreads.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2012-12-04 19:07:33 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Lee Yarwood 2012-08-16 10:04:38 UTC

Description of problem:
As a result of bz#781975 and http://gerrit.ovirt.org/1737 VDSM's getVdsCaps call only returns the number of physical cores on a system. We should provide a way for customers to force VDSM to return the total number of physical and logical cores/threads on the host.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vdsm-4.9.6-28.0.el6_3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. vdsClient -s 0 getVdsCaps

  
Actual results:
getVdsCaps returns the number of physical cores on the host.

Expected results:
Given the correct config value getVdsCaps should be able to return both the total number of physical and logical cores/threads on a system.

Additional info:
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/7097/

Comment 4 Dan Kenigsberg 2012-08-16 12:21:53 UTC

when report_host_threads_as_cores is left in its default "false" value, the number of real host cores is to be reported in cpuCores. When the value is changed to "true", hyperthreads are counted instead.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2012-12-04 19:07:33 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1508.html