Re: [PATCH 08 of 10 v3] libxl: enable automatic placement of guests on NUMA nodes

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 06/07/12 14:00, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 12:30 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>> One question I have:  Is there any particular reason to sort the whole
>> list, rather than just finding the maximum based on the comparison function?
>>
> That is basically a leftover from my previous "let's make things a bit
> more general" approach. Don't get me wrong, I still think that and like
> sorting more than anything else for the interface (although it's an
> "internal interface") but yes, right now looking for the max won't be
> anything different from sorting descending and taking the #0 element.
>
>> But I think it's been a long time and it looks good enough to me:
>>
>> Acked-by: George Dunlap<george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
>>
> Ok, I get this like I can leave it as it is... Or you want me to kill
> the sorting?
I can't really foresee a time when anyone would want to use anything 
other than the best option.  Just choosing the best makes a slightly 
simpler interface, and simplified the code somewhat.  At the moment, 
sorting shouldn't take too long, but suppose we get systems with 128 
nodes at some point in the future -- then the number of possible 
combinations might be pretty large, and sorting that even at n log n 
might take a noticeable amount of time.

So I think it's up to you: If you thinking sorting will be useful in the 
future, then I think keep it.  But if you also think it's not going to 
be very useful, I think it would make more sense to take it out.

  -George