Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 3.4.1 NUMA support

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/11/2009 15:40, "Ian Pratt" <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Even better would be to have pCPUs addressable and listable explicitly as
>> dotted tuples. That can be implemented entirely within the toolstack, and
>> could even allow wildcarding of tuple components to efficiently express
>> cpumasks.
> 
> Yes, I'd certainly like to see the toolstack support dotted tuple notation.
> 
> However, I just don't trust the toolstack to get this right unless xen has
> already set it up nicely for it with a sensible enumeration and defined
> sockets-per-node, cores-per-socket and threads-per-core parameters. Xen should
> provide a clean interface to the toolstack in this respect.

Xen provides a topology-interrogation hypercall which should suffice for
tools to build up a {node,socket,core,thread}<->cpuid mapping table.

 -- Keir



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