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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:45:11 +0000
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/13] numa: add '-numa cpu' option
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To: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>, Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>, ehabkost@redhat.com, peter.maydell@linaro.org, fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com, stefanha@redhat.com, izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com, vilanova@ac.upc.edu, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 06:13:16PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> 
> Series introduces a new CLI option to allow mapping cpus to numa
> nodes using public properties [socket|core|thread]-ids instead of
> internal cpu-index and moving cpu<->node mapping from global bitmaps
> to PCMachineState struct.

What is the benefit of this change to apps ? Obviously libvirt uses
the current syntax, but I'm not aware of what problems that has - why
would libvirt want to use this new syntax instead ?


Regards,
Daniel
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