From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33979) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WEOWg-0005GP-G9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:34:24 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WEOWa-0007E2-HL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:34:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:34:08 -0500 From: Luiz Capitulino Message-ID: <20140214143408.4b34d2c7@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-options.hx: improve -numa doc List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, ehabkost@redhat.com The -numa option documentation in qemu's manpage lacks the command-line options and some information regarding how it relates to options -m and -smp. This commit fills in the missing text. Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino --- qemu-options.hx | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index 56e5fdf..ed1d409 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -97,10 +97,13 @@ ETEXI DEF("numa", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_numa, "-numa node[,mem=size][,cpus=cpu[-cpu]][,nodeid=node]\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) STEXI -@item -numa @var{opts} +@item -numa node[,mem=@var{size}][,cpus=@var{cpu[-cpu]}][,nodeid=@var{node}] @findex -numa -Simulate a multi node NUMA system. If mem and cpus are omitted, resources -are split equally. +Simulate a multi node NUMA system. If @var{mem} and @var{cpus} are omitted, +resources are split equally. Also, note that the -@option{numa} option doesn't +allocate any of the specified resources. That is, it just assigns existing +resources to NUMA nodes. This means that one still has to use the -@option{m} +and -@option{smp} options to respectively allocate RAM and vCPUs. ETEXI DEF("add-fd", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_add_fd, -- 1.8.1.4