On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 17:48 +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 02/03/15 17:43, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > On 02/03/15 17:34, David Vrabel wrote:
> >> 
> >> A guest that previously had 2 vNUMA nodes is migrated to a host with
> >> only 1 pNUMA node.  It should still have 2 vNUMA nodes.
> > 
> > A natural consequence of vNUMA is that the guest must expect the vNUMA
> > layout to change across suspend/resume.  The toolstack cannot guarentee
> > that it can construct a similar vNUMA layout after a migration.  This
> > includes the toolstack indicating that it was unable to make any useful
> > NUMA affinity with the memory ranges.
> 
> Eep!  I very much doubt we can do anything in Linux except retain the
> existing NUMA layout across a save/restore.

In the case you mention above I would expect the 2 vnuma nodes to just
point to the same single pnuma node.

As such I think it's probably not relevant to the need for
XEN_NO_NUMA_NODE?

Or is that not would be expected?


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