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Re: [xen-devel][vNUMA v2][PATCH 2/8] public interface

Dulloor wrote:
Interface definition. Structure that will be shared with hvmloader (with HVMs)
and directly with the VMs (with PV).

-dulloor

Signed-off-by : Dulloor <dulloor@xxxxxxxxx>


+/* vnodes are 1GB-aligned */
+#define XEN_MIN_VNODE_SHIFT (30)
Why that? Do you mean guest memory here? Isn't that a bit restrictive?
What if the remaining system resources do not allow this?
What about a 5GB guest on 2 nodes?
In AMD hardware there is minimum shift of 16MB, so I think 24 bit would
be better.

+struct xen_vnode_info {
+    uint8_t mnode_id;  /* physical node vnode is allocated from */
+    uint32_t start;    /* start of the vnode range (in pages) */
+    uint32_t end;              /* end of the vnode range (in pages) */
+};
+
+struct xen_domain_numa_info {
+    uint8_t version;    /* Interface version */
+    uint8_t type;       /* VM memory allocation scheme (see above) */
+
+    uint8_t nr_vcpus;
Isn't that redundant with info stored somewhere else (for instance
in the hvm_info table)?
+    uint8_t nr_vnodes;
+    /* data[] has the following entries :
+     * //Only (nr_vnodes) entries are filled, each sizeof(struct 
xen_vnode_info)
+ * struct xen_vnode_info vnode_info[nr_vnodes];
Why would the guest need that info (physical node, start and end) here?
Wouldn't be just the size of the node's memory sufficient?

Regards,
Andre.
+     * //Only (nr_vcpus) entries are filled, each sizeof(uint8_t)
+     * uint8_t vcpu_to_vnode[nr_vcpus];
+     * //Only (nr_vnodes*nr_vnodes) entries are filled, each sizeof(uint8_t)
+     * uint8_t vnode_distance[nr_vnodes*nr_vnodes];
+     */
+       uint8_t data[0];
+};
+
+#endif

--
Andre Przywara
AMD-Operating System Research Center (OSRC), Dresden, Germany
Tel: +49 351 448-3567-12


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