On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:50:08AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com> writes:
> This allows ":" to be used a separator between each CPU range, so the
> command-line may look like:
>
> -numa node,cpus=A-B:C-D
>
> Note that the following format, currently used by libvirt:
>
> -numa nodes,cpus=A-B,C-D
>
> will _not_ work, as "," is the option separator for the command-line
> option parser, and it would require changing the -numa option parsing
> code to handle "cpus" as a special case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com>
> ---
> Changes v2:
> - Use ":" as separator
> - Document the new format
See also discussion on multi-valued keys in command line option
arguments and config files in v1 thread. Hopefully we can reach a
conclusion soon, and then we'll see whether this patch is what we want.
Yeah, let's drop this patch by now. I am starting to be convinced that
"cpus=A,cpus=B,cpus=C" is the best approach. It is not pretty, but at
least it uses generic parser code instead of yet another ad-hoc parser.
--
Eduardo