Re: [libvirt] qemu -numa option and non-contiguous CPU ranges
On 06/21/2012 07:51 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
Hi,
I just noticed libvirt tries to use the -numa option in a way that qemu
never understood: if a node is configured to have a non-contiguous set
of CPUs, it tries to generate a command-line option that looks like:
"-numa node,nodeid=...,cpus=0,2,4,mem=..."
^^^^^
But this format was never supported by qemu. This format is even a bit
weird, as "," is an option separator, and it is being used as a
separator _inside_ an option.
Exactly this was the reason back then to not support non-contiguous set
of CPUs. Inside qemu there is no reason why this shouldn't work, it was
just hard to write on the command line. So after a short discussion we
decided to drop this for the time being. If you have a great idea how to
specify this (I think a comma will not work, because it will be catched
earlier), I am all ears.
Regards,
Andre.
My question is: should we support this option format in qemu, or
should
we change libvirt to use another format (that has yet to be implemented,
because currently there's no way to specify a non-contiguous set of CPUs
for a NUMA node).
Any suggestions?
--
Andre Przywara
AMD-Operating System Research Center (OSRC), Dresden, Germany