RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/3] xend: Add multiple cpumasks support

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Are you interested in the multi cpumask approach?  

Yes: it certainly doesn't hurt to have that flexibility. 

> If so any thoughts on how
> you'd like to see multiple cpumasks in the config file?

Either Keir's cpu[X] = "Y" approach or my cpu = [ "A","B","C" ] approach
seem workable.

Keir's approach is rather ill defined if someone tries using both cpu=
and cpu[X]= in the same config file, but I don't see that as a big
problem.  Take your pick :-)

BTW: does the right thing happen in the face of vcpu hot plugging? i.e.
if I unplug a vcpu and put it back in do I keep the old mask? If I add
vcpus what mask do they get?

We should probably add a 'vcpu-pin' variant that enables the mask to be
set for all vcpus. Perhaps '-1' for the vcpu number? Or should we add
'vcpu-pin-all'?

[secondly, what do you think about implicitly defaulting the mask to all
1's if the first item in a cpu mask is an exclusion? e.g. ^1] 

Ian

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