Re: [PATCH 03/15] xen: numa-sched: leave node-affinity alone if not in "auto" mode

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 10/03/2013 06:45 PM, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> If the domain's NUMA node-affinity is being specified by the
> user/toolstack (instead of being automatically computed by Xen),
> we really should stick to that. This means domain_update_node_affinity()
> is wrong when it filters out some stuff from there even in "!auto"
> mode.
>
> This commit fixes that. Of course, this does not mean node-affinity
> is always honoured (e.g., a vcpu won't run on a pcpu of a different
> cpupool) but the necessary logic for taking into account all the
> possible situations lives in the scheduler code, where it belongs.
>
> What could happen without this change is that, under certain
> circumstances, the node-affinity of a domain may change when the
> user modifies the vcpu-affinity of the domain's vcpus. This, even
> if probably not a real bug, is at least something the user does
> not expect, so let's avoid it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
> Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
> ---
> This has been submitted already as a single patch on its own.
> Since this series needs the change done here, just include it
> in here, instead of pinging the original submission and deferring
> posting this series.

Kier / Jan: And as this is actually independent of the rest of the 
series, and already has my reviewed-by, it can be applied right now 
without waiting for the rest of the series to be reviewed.

  -George