From: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
To: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Cc: robh@kernel.org, qemu-riscv@nongnu.org, ehabkost@redhat.com,
peter.maydell@linaro.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
qemu-arm@nongnu.org, shan.gavin@gmail.com,
Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] numa: Require distance map when empty node exists
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:33:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211015083359.j5t2xt7cfdjqbzlm@gator> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2399ce27-0663-6780-5453-3ee773563352@redhat.com>
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 07:22:05PM +1100, Gavin Shan wrote:
> It's possible that the empty NUMA nodes aren't referred by any CPUs,
> as the following command line indicate. In this case, the empty NUMA
> node IDs aren't existing in device-tree CPU nodes. So we still need
> the distance-map.
Ah, indeed.
>
> However, I would like to drop this (PATCH[01/02]) in v4. The memory
> hotplug through device-tree on ARM64 isn't existing. We might have
> alternative ways to present the empty NUMA nodes when it's supported,
> or we needn't it for ever because ACPI is enough to support the
> memory hotplug.
Agreed. Please update the commit message of 2/2 for v4 and also add
a comment above the new code with the rationale for dropping those
memory nodes.
Thanks,
drew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-15 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-13 4:58 [PATCH v3 0/2] hw/arm/virt: Fix qemu booting failure on device-tree Gavin Shan
2021-10-13 4:58 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] numa: Require distance map when empty node exists Gavin Shan
2021-10-13 6:35 ` Andrew Jones
2021-10-13 11:30 ` Igor Mammedov
2021-10-13 11:35 ` Andrew Jones
2021-10-13 11:53 ` Igor Mammedov
2021-10-13 12:11 ` Andrew Jones
2021-10-13 12:28 ` Andrew Jones
2021-10-14 15:14 ` Igor Mammedov
2021-10-14 15:36 ` Andrew Jones
2021-10-15 8:22 ` Gavin Shan
2021-10-15 8:33 ` Andrew Jones [this message]
2021-10-15 10:51 ` Gavin Shan
2021-10-13 4:58 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] hw/arm/virt: Don't create device-tree node for empty NUMA node Gavin Shan
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