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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/4] [HVM] introduce CPU affinity for allocate_ph

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/4] [HVM] introduce CPU affinity for allocate_physmap call
From: "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:59:31 +0200
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Monday 13 August 2007 12:30:15 Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 13/8/07 11:02, "Andre Przywara" <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
> >  #define XENMEM_increase_reservation 0
> >  #define XENMEM_decrease_reservation 1
> >  #define XENMEM_populate_physmap     6
> > +#define XENMEM_DEFAULT_CPU ((unsigned int)-1)
> >  struct xen_memory_reservation {
> >
> >      /*
> > @@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ struct xen_memory_reservation {
> >       * Unprivileged domains can specify only DOMID_SELF.
> >       */
> >      domid_t        domid;
> > +    unsigned int   cpu;
> >  };
>
> We cannot change the size of existing hypercall structures.

Except Xen bumps major version number to 4 ? :-)

You are worrying about PV guests that lag behind with syncing
pulic headers such as NetBSD/Xen ?

> In this case we  could steal bits from address_bits field and create a pair
> of 16-bit fields from it. Also, a physical cpu id is not a great fit for
> this hypercall --  it is meaningless to most guests who do not see the
> physical cpu map. 
> Better to pass a vcpu_id and let Xen work out the most appropriate physical
> cpu id based on the vcpu's affinity. Or have a concept of per-guest
> 'virtual node identifiers' and pass a 'uint16_t vnodeid'. The latter might
> actually be a nice abstraction -- it'd be good to know other people's
> thoughts on this?

Making struct xen_machphys_mapping NUMA-aware is also a no-go, right?
It would additionally need a min_mfn and a vnodeid member.

Oh, and how should the guest query how many vnode's exist?


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