On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 01:17:57PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 13/05/2015 20:06, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > > > Also, this introduces a circular dependency between pc-dimm.c and > > > numa.c. Instead of that, pc-dimm could simply notify us when a new > > > device is realized (with just (addr, end, node) as arguments), so we can > > > save the list of memory ranges inside struct node_info. > > > > > > I wonder if the memory API already provides something that would help > > > us. Paolo, do you see a way we could simply use a MemoryRegion as input > > > to lookup the NUMA node? > > > > No, but I guess you could add a numa_get/set_memory_region_node_id API > > that uses a hash table. That's a variant of the "pc-dimm could simply > > notify" numa.c that you propose above. > > While you say we can't use MemoryRegion as input to lookup the NUMA node, > you suggest that we add numa_get/set_memory_region_node_id. Does this API > get/set NUMA node id for the given MemoryRegion ?
I was going to suggest that, but it would require changing the non-memdev code path to create a MemoryRegion for each node, too. So having a numa_set_mem_node_id(start_addr, end_addr, node_id) API would be simpler. -- Eduardo
