linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RESEND v2 0/2] xen: vnuma introduction for pv guest

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Date:	Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:18:35 +0100
From:	Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@...rix.com>
To:	Elena Ufimtseva <ufimtseva@...il.com>
CC:	<xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<wency@...fujitsu.com>, <x86@...nel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>,
	<mingo@...hat.com>, <david.vrabel@...rix.com>, <hpa@...or.com>,
	<boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>, <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	<stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>, <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RESEND v2 0/2] xen: vnuma introduction for
 pv guest

On lun, 2013-11-18 at 16:58 -0500, Elena Ufimtseva wrote:
> Xen vnuma introduction.
> 
> The patchset introduces vnuma to paravirtualized Xen guests
> runnning as domU.
> Xen subop hypercall is used to retreive vnuma topology information.
> Bases on the retreived topology from Xen, NUMA number of nodes,
> memory ranges, distance table and cpumask is being set.
> If initialization is incorrect, sets 'dummy' node and unsets
> nodemask. vNUMA topology is constructed by Xen toolstack.
> 
> Example of vnuma enabled pv domain dmesg:
> 
Mmm... So, why the resend? When you do things like this, you usually
tell the reason, if only, to let people know what happened and which
series they should actually look at and review. :-)

Regards,
Dario

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