From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Cc: Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: PV-vNUMA issue: topology is misinterpreted by the guest
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:24:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55B5B283.8050701@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B26A92.8060004@oracle.com>
On 07/24/2015 06:40 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 07/24/2015 12:10 PM, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>
>> If we can fiddle with the masks on boot, we could do it in a running
>> system, too. Another advantage with not relying on cpuid. :-)
>
>
> I am trying to catch up with this thread so I may have missed it, but I
> still don't understand why we don't want to rely on CPUID.
>
> I think I saw Juergen said --- because it's HW-specific. But what's
> wrong with that? Hypervisor is building virtualized x86 (in this case)
> hardware and on such HW CPUID is the standard way of determining
> thread/core topology. Plus various ACPI tables and such.
I didn't mean specific to x86, but even different between AMD and Intel.
Juergen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-27 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-16 10:32 PV-vNUMA issue: topology is misinterpreted by the guest Dario Faggioli
2015-07-16 10:47 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-16 10:56 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-16 15:25 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-16 15:45 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-16 15:50 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-16 16:29 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-16 16:39 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-16 16:59 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-17 6:09 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-17 7:27 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-17 7:42 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-17 8:44 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-17 18:17 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-20 14:09 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-20 14:43 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-21 20:00 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-22 13:36 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-22 13:50 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-22 13:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-22 14:09 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-22 14:44 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-23 4:43 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-23 7:28 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-23 9:42 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-23 14:07 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-23 14:13 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-24 10:28 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-24 14:44 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-24 15:14 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-24 15:24 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-24 15:58 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-24 16:09 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-07-24 16:14 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-24 16:18 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-24 16:29 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-07-24 16:39 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-24 16:44 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-27 4:35 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-27 10:43 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-27 10:54 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-27 11:13 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-27 10:54 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-27 11:11 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-27 12:01 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-27 12:16 ` Tim Deegan
2015-07-27 13:23 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-27 14:02 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-27 14:02 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-27 10:41 ` George Dunlap
2015-07-27 10:49 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-27 13:11 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-24 16:10 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-24 16:40 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-24 16:48 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-24 17:11 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-27 13:40 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-27 4:24 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2015-07-27 14:09 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-27 14:34 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-27 14:43 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-27 14:51 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-27 15:03 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-27 14:47 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-27 14:58 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-28 4:29 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-28 15:11 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-28 16:17 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-28 17:13 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-29 6:04 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-29 7:09 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-29 7:44 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-24 16:05 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-28 10:05 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-28 15:17 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-24 20:27 ` Elena Ufimtseva
2015-07-22 14:50 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-22 15:32 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-22 15:49 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-22 18:10 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-23 7:25 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-24 16:03 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-23 13:46 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-17 10:17 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-16 15:26 ` Wei Liu
2015-07-27 15:13 ` David Vrabel
2015-07-27 16:02 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-27 16:31 ` David Vrabel
2015-07-27 16:33 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-27 17:42 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-27 17:50 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-07-27 23:19 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-28 3:52 ` Juergen Gross
2015-07-28 9:40 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-28 9:28 ` Dario Faggioli
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