hello all, ask a simple question, for cpu_cap, the default is 0, does it mean the zone can use all CPUs if possible? no limit to CPU resources?

tozhu, man vmadm -> "type: integer (percentage of single CPUs, set to 0 for no cap)"

_jesse: 0 for no cap, does it mean no limit for the zones?

no cap would mean all-it-gets, afaik

there is still cpu_shares that limits how much each zone gets when all cpus are in use

as I understand it, 4 cpus in node, cpu_cap=0: can run on full 4 cpus. if there is a second zone with cpu_cap=200, and it's using it all, it would get 2 cpus and the cpu_cap=0 zone would get 2 cpus, too

cpu_shares are not cpus but 'relative to all cpu_shares in the node'

_jesse, Thank you very much

Hi, Don't suppose someone can free up some time to help me with an issue. Trying to create a bhyve vm with pci enabled. So I'm running the latest smartos build so I've edited the filesystem to include ppt_matches and ppt_aliases Loader sees these files

Now I've ran pptadm list -a -o dev,vendor,device,path and this is what I'm getting back

-- 15b3 1003 /pci@0,0/pci8086,c01@1/pci15b3,28

so it's not assinging the card to dev it seems, I've got history working with linux however my illumos knowledge is still pretty limited

@tozhu We had a recent office hours discussion on the cpu_cap topic you may want to review as well: youtube.com/watch?v=iiikc5ogg0s

didn't know office hours were structured like that

would be cool to have all of them listed on some page, with the subsections (like the one above) on the page with timestamp links to the videos

would be easy place to point people to 'look for cpu_shares on that page'

oh, I wasn't aware of the recordings as well - that's nice

We are getting better at the process of recording/posting and putting notes/chapters in place for easier consumption.

could make a page that has list of youtube urls that fetched the chapter metadata to show?

(not sure if there's an easy api on youtube for that, though)

sep last year, "...currently, there is no way to get the chapters from the official YouTube API, so the only way to get the chapters from a text-description response (like the YouTube API provides) is to parse it in some way:"

why am I not surprised?=)

prtdiag -v shows the pcie card in-use, should this be the case if i'm trying to pass through my card into a vm?

controlc.com/64ff6edb <--- any chance someone can have a look at this pastebin to see where I'm going wrong please

:(

FILES

/etc/ppt_aliases

Containts the bindings of PPT devices in the same format as

/etc/driver_aliases

So what do your ppt_aliases and ppt_matches say?

@openstandards ^^^ ? I admit to not knowing a lot about PPT.

Also: movementarian.org/blog/posts/2018-1…ough-support-with-bhyve-and-smartos

Hi danmcd, that's the guide I found via my google-fu and the irc logs :)

my /etc/driver_aliases is pastebin.pl/view/108a1f8e

my ppt_aliases is empty and ppt_matches has pci10de,15f0 in it