On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:10:30PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 15/07/2013 19:05, Vasilis Liaskovitis ha scritto: > > from what i understand, we are currently favoring this numa option? (I saw > > it > > mentioned in Gao's numa patchset series as well) > > The two patchsets have some overlap, so it's good to find a design that > fits both. > > > There is still the question of "how many hotpluggable dimm devices does this > > memory range describe?". With the dimm device that was clearly defined, but > > not > > so with this option. Do we choose a default granularity e.g. 1 GB? > > I think it's the same. One "-numa mem" option = one "-device dimm" > option; both define one range. Unused memory ranges may remain if you
ah ok, I get the proposal now. > stumble upon a unusable range such as the PCI window. For example two > "-numa mem,size=2G" options would allocate memory from 0 to 2G and from > 4 to 6G. ok, that's done already. thanks, - Vasilis