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

[Dulloor <dulloor@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/08/2010 22:55, "Andre Przywara" <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> As such, the purpose of vnode-to-mnode translation is for the enlightened
>>> guests to know where their underlying memory comes from, so that
>>> over-provisioning features
>>> like ballooning are given a chance to maintain this distribution.
>> I was afraid you were saying that ;-) I haven't thought about this in
>> detail, but maybe we can make an exception for Dom0 only, because this
>> is the most prominent and frequent user of ballooning. But I really
>> think that DomUs should not know about or deal with host NUMA nodes.
>
> So long as it gets renamed to 'node_id' in the info structure I'm okay with
> it. That doesn't preclude simply setting that field to 0...nr_vnodes-1 and
> doing translation in the hypervisor, but also leaves us a bit of
> flexibility.
Yes, I like this idea. Will do that.

>
>  -- Keir
>
>
>

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