Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V5 01/12] NUMA: add NumaOptions, NumaNodeOptions and NumaMemOptions

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 07/17/13 16:20, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 17/07/2013 15:57, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
>>>> Not only that, but is this even the right representation?  The fact that
>>>> you are requiring the receiver to further parse this string means you
>>>> probably represented it at the wrong level in JSON.  That is, a JSON
>>>> string "1,2,4" requires post-processing to turn it into 3 processor ids,
>>>> while a JSON array [1, 2, 4] does not, so you should probably consider
>>>> '*cpus':['int'] as your preferred datatype.
>> opts-visitor can handle lists of simple scalar types. Ie. it can do
>> -numa node,nodeid=3,cpus=3-4,cpus=9-10. It can't save the parsing of
>> intervals (eg. 3-4).
> 
> Saving the parsing of intervals is not necessary for this use case.  So
> if we can make it '*cpus':['int'], we should.
> 
> But is it the opts-visitor "can handle" lists of integers, or does code
> have to be written?  If the latter, can you whip up a prototype?

No extra code needs to be written. The current use case is
NetdevUserOptions.{dnssearch,hostfwd,guestfwd}; see commit 094f15c5, and
(by Klaus Stengel) commit 63d2960b.

Laszlo