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From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
To: Dulloor <dulloor@gmail.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] [XEN] NUMA guest tools interface
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:13:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBC76E2.9020603@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y2h940bcfd21004041230s4b8054c6h7f62afa4651bd35@mail.gmail.com>

Dulloor wrote:
> The patch adds hypercall interfaces to get/set the virtual numa layout
> for a domain.
I don't see the need for introducing this many new interfaces. I 
couldn't find a reference for the nodemap information (mfn_to_nid) to be 
actually used somewhere, is there any missing part or was it just for 
the sake of completeness?
Beside that, cpu_to_node is already in physinfo, and via xc_availheap 
(which takes a node parameter) you can query the amount of free memory 
per node. I think that is all we need to know about the host's NUMA 
topology, but correct me if I am wrong.
(OK, the distance information is missing...)
 From a design point of view I would avoid exporting so many host 
machine information to Dom0 unless we really need it.

Regards,
Andre.

-- 
Andre Przywara
AMD-Operating System Research Center (OSRC), Dresden, Germany
Tel: +49 351 448-3567-12

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-07 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-04 19:30 [PATCH 03/11] [XEN] NUMA guest tools interface Dulloor
2010-04-07 12:13 ` Andre Przywara [this message]
2010-04-07 14:52   ` Cui, Dexuan
2010-04-07 15:22     ` Keir Fraser
2010-04-09  5:14     ` Dulloor
2010-04-09  4:58   ` Dulloor

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