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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/19] Virtual NUMA for PV and HVM



On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 03:01:58PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 03:06:42PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > This patch series implements virtual NUMA support for both PV and HVM guest.
> > That is, admin can configure via libxl what virtual NUMA topology the guest
> > sees.
> > 
> > This is the stage 1 (basic vNUMA support) and part of stage 2 (vNUMA-ware
> > ballooning, hypervisor side) described in my previous email to xen-devel 
> > [0].
> > 
> > This series is broken into several parts:
> > 
> > 1. xen patches: vNUMA debug output and vNUMA-aware memory hypercall support.
> > 2. libxc/libxl support for PV vNUMA.
> > 3. libxc/libxl support for HVM vNUMA.
> > 4. xl vNUMA configuration documentation and parser.
> > 
> > I think one significant difference from Elena's work is that this patch 
> > series
> > makes use of multiple vmemranges should there be a memory hole, instead of
> > shrinking ram. This matches the behaviour of real hardware.
> 
> Are some of the patches then borrowed from Elena? If so, she should be 
> credited
> in the patches?
> > 

Due to the fact that libxl interface changed, as well as lots of
assumptions, I only have one patch taken from her (the first one) and
rewrote PV toolstack implementation.

Elena, if you discover that I didn't credit you for later patches, don't
hesitate to tell me. ;-)

Wei.

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