Re: [Xen-devel] Problems about CPU Affinity

* Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007-05-18 05:36]:
> > > I thought you could by specifying a list of physical CPUs?
> > > Perhaps this
> > > got broken by the xapi changes?
> > 
> > No, the problem that the original post talks about, is that you can't
> > set affinity of individual VCPU's to individual PCPU's, e.g:
> > vcpus=2
> > cpus=2
> 
> AFAIK, you used to be able to specify a list:
>  vcpus=2
>  cpus = ["2,3,4","5,6,7"]
> 
> Maybe this patch never went in. AFAIR it was from Ryan. 

I don't think we ever took the multi cpumask per vcpu patch.  At the
time, only the part where we apply the same cpumask defined from cpus=""
value to each vcpu when in allowing the credit scheduler to balance within
the affinity mask.

Couple of threads of discussion here:

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-08/msg00965.html

follow up threads:

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-08/msg00783.html
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-08/msg00785.html

The only changes that is see committed were:

changeset:   11111:438ed1c4b391
user:        kfraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
date:        Tue Aug 15 10:56:59 2006 +0100
summary:     [XEND] Apply the domain cpumask fully to every vcpu in the domain.


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