Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.2] pc: acpi: mark all possible CPUs as enabled in SRAT

[Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:08:06 +0100
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 11/11/2014 09:35, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > > 
> > > No, I mean can you do it also for pc-2.1 and earlier?  Or should it be
> > > only for the last machine type?
> > 
> > As Michael sad it's for all machine types or have you meant 2.1 stable
> > branch? My thought was that it's closed now.
> 
> I meant pc-2.1.  But if you and Michael agree, it's fine to have it
> there as well.
It should be safe, any migrated old machine will use original SRAT
unit reboot, after that it will pickup fixed table. Scope is limited to
 -numa + cpu_hotplug guests, for other configurations SRAT will stay the same.

> 
> 2.1 stable branch should be open until 2.1.3 is released, shortly after
> 2.2.0.  2.1.2 was unplanned, so there should be a .3 release like we had
> 2.1.3.
> 
> Hmm, http://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Planning/2.1 disagrees.  No
> big deal.
> 
> Paolo
> 
> > I've tested it with RHEL6-7x64 and xp3,Windows server 2003-2012R2x64.
> > So far no regression was noticed.
>