Re: [PATCH 03/11] [XEN] NUMA guest tools interface

[Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>]

Dulloor wrote:
> The patch adds hypercall interfaces to get/set the virtual numa layout
> for a domain.
I don't see the need for introducing this many new interfaces. I 
couldn't find a reference for the nodemap information (mfn_to_nid) to be 
actually used somewhere, is there any missing part or was it just for 
the sake of completeness?
Beside that, cpu_to_node is already in physinfo, and via xc_availheap 
(which takes a node parameter) you can query the amount of free memory 
per node. I think that is all we need to know about the host's NUMA 
topology, but correct me if I am wrong.
(OK, the distance information is missing...)
 From a design point of view I would avoid exporting so many host 
machine information to Dom0 unless we really need it.

Regards,
Andre.

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Andre Przywara
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