Re: qemu, numa: non-contiguous cpusets

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 29/09/2013 17:10, Borislav Petkov ha scritto:
> Btw,
> 
> while I got your attention, on a not-really related topic: how do we
> feel about adding support for specifying a non-contiguous set of cpus
> for a numa node in qemu with the -numa option? I.e., like this, for
> example:
> 
> x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -smp 8 -numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0\;2\;4-5 -numa node,nodeid=1,cpus=1\;3\;6-7

I think there are already patches on the list to do that, as part of the
NUMA memory binding series from Wanlong Gao.

Paolo

> The ';' needs to be escaped from the shell but I'm open for better
> suggestions.
> 
> Here's a diff:
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> index 4e709d5c1c20..82a6c8451fb0 100644
> --- a/vl.c
> +++ b/vl.c
> @@ -1261,9 +1261,27 @@ char *get_boot_devices_list(size_t *size)
>      return list;
>  }
>  
> +static int __numa_set_cpus(unsigned long *map, int start, int end)
> +{
> +    if (end >= MAX_CPUMASK_BITS) {
> +        end = MAX_CPUMASK_BITS - 1;
> +        fprintf(stderr,
> +            "qemu: NUMA: A max of %d VCPUs are supported\n",
> +             MAX_CPUMASK_BITS);
> +        return -EINVAL;
> +    }
> +
> +    if (end < start) {
> +        return -EINVAL;
> +    }
> +
> +    bitmap_set(map, start, end-start+1);
> +    return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static void numa_node_parse_cpus(int nodenr, const char *cpus)
>  {
> -    char *endptr;
> +    char *endptr, *ptr = (char *)cpus;
>      unsigned long long value, endvalue;
>  
>      /* Empty CPU range strings will be considered valid, they will simply
> @@ -1273,7 +1291,8 @@ static void numa_node_parse_cpus(int nodenr, const char *cpus)
>          return;
>      }
>  
> -    if (parse_uint(cpus, &value, &endptr, 10) < 0) {
> +fromthetop:
> +    if (parse_uint(ptr, &value, &endptr, 10) < 0) {
>          goto error;
>      }
>      if (*endptr == '-') {
> @@ -1282,22 +1301,22 @@ static void numa_node_parse_cpus(int nodenr, const char *cpus)
>          }
>      } else if (*endptr == '\0') {
>          endvalue = value;
> -    } else {
> -        goto error;
> -    }
> +    } else if (*endptr == ';') {
> +	if (__numa_set_cpus(node_cpumask[nodenr], value, value) < 0) {
> +		goto error;
> +	}
> +	endptr++;
> +        if (*endptr == '\0')
> +	    return;
>  
> -    if (endvalue >= MAX_CPUMASK_BITS) {
> -        endvalue = MAX_CPUMASK_BITS - 1;
> -        fprintf(stderr,
> -            "qemu: NUMA: A max of %d VCPUs are supported\n",
> -             MAX_CPUMASK_BITS);
> -    }
> +	ptr = endptr;
>  
> -    if (endvalue < value) {
> +	goto fromthetop;
> +    } else {
>          goto error;
>      }
>  
> -    bitmap_set(node_cpumask[nodenr], value, endvalue-value+1);
> +    __numa_set_cpus(node_cpumask[nodenr], value, endvalue);
>      return;
>  
>  error:
> --
> 
> Thanks.
>