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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] vl.c: Support multiple CPU ranges on -numa option
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:52:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C2D0EA.7060204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130620113030.79943476@nial.usersys.redhat.com>

Il 20/06/2013 11:30, Igor Mammedov ha scritto:
>>>> > > > So, basically the format seemed easier to work with if we are thinking 
>>>> > > > of using QemuOpts for -numa. Using -cpu rather than cpus probably
>>>> > > > makes it less ambiguous as well IMO. However, it's probably not a good idea
>>>> > > > if the current syntax is well established ?
>> > 
>> > libvirt uses the "cpus" option already, so we have to keep it working.
> Sure, we can leave it as it's now for some time while a new interface is
> introduced/adopted. And than later deprecate "cpus".

So, you used a new name because the new behavior of "-numa
node,cpus=1-2,cpus=3-4" would be incompatible with the old.

Personally I don't think that's a problem, but I remember a long
discussion in the past.  Igor/Eduardo, do you remember the conclusions?

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-20  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-18 20:09 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] vl.c: Support multiple CPU ranges on -numa option Bandan Das
2013-06-19 11:42 ` Igor Mammedov
2013-06-19 13:26   ` Eduardo Habkost
2013-06-20  9:30     ` Igor Mammedov
2013-06-20  9:52       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-06-20 11:34         ` Michael Tokarev
2013-06-20 13:02           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-20 13:26         ` Eduardo Habkost
2013-06-20 13:30           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-20 16:02             ` Bandan Das
2013-06-21  6:53               ` Wanlong Gao
2013-06-21 14:51                 ` Bandan Das

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