Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xend: Fix non-contiguous NUMA node assignment

[Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>]

Keir Fraser wrote:
> I had a go myself: see c/s 20817. This keeps nr_nodes as well as
> max_node_id, and continues to use it where it seemed to make sense to do so.
c/s 20817 seems OK to me. Actually that was how I started, but then 
decided to drop max_node_id because I didn't see the sense in keeping 
two variables which actually differ just by 1. But I didn't consider 
chunk #3 of XendDomainInfo.py, which actually also fixes another bug.
Thanks!
Regards,
Andre.

>  -- Keir
>
> On 17/01/2010 17:48, "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > nr_nodes was always num_online_nodes() returned by Xen -- not accounting for
> > holes in node id space. Hance I emulated that behaviour from the Python
> > extension package. If what you actually want everywhere in the Python code
> > is max_node_id, then please remove the nr_nodes code from xc.c and all
> > references to it from the Python code. I agree that using max_node_id seems
> > more correct than nr_nodes -- the intention was for someone to plumb that
> > new field properly into the Python code anyway.
> >
> >  -- Keir
> >
> > On 15/01/2010 13:28, "Andre Przywara" <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > it seems that I missed a point in this whole addition of max_node_id. I
> > > see the difference in the Xen HV part, so nr_nodes got replaced with
> > > max_node_id in physinfo_t (and xc_physinfo_t, respectively).
> > > But where does this value help in xend? There is no single Python
> > > reference to the physinfo()'s max_node_id field, instead all functions
> > > use the old (but now bogus) nr_nodes variable.
> > > So in the attached patch I kept the xc.physinfo() returned dictionary
> > > with only a nr_nodes field, calculated by simply adding 1 to max_node_id
> > > from libxc. Empty nodes can (and will) be detected by iterating through
> > > the node_to_cpus and node_to_memory lists.
> > > Nodes without memory should not be considered during guest's memory
> > > allocation, but will be used for further CPU affinity setting if the
> > > number of VCPUs exceeds the number of cores per node.
> > >
> > > Please correct me if I am totally wrong on this, but this seems to work
> > > much better in my case.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Andre.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
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