[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] NUMA: promoting NUMA topology to BIOS and pin guest memory

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> ACK. Actually I'd had to add code to prevent pinning from the command 
>> line. I think this doesn't hurt, if you use virtualization for 
>> partitioning (where a NUMA architecture can actually help you, 
>> because guests don't compete will all other guests for the memory 
>> bandwidth), it is quite helpful to specify everything at the beginning.
>
> The thing that makes me uneasy about it is the fact that it's part of 
> the base numa syntax.  This combination of guest configuration and 
> host configuration seems less than optimal to me.  This isn't 
> something that bothers me that much and won't keep me from applying 
> the patches.

I also think that it would be good to separate guest and host 
configuration, like -net nic and -net tap.

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