[Xen-devel][PATCH]pcpu tuples [was Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 3.4.1 NUMA support]

[Dulloor <dulloor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Attached is a patch to construct pcpu tuples of the form
(node.socket.core.thread), and (currently)used by xm vcpu-pin utility.

-dulloor

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 13/11/2009 15:40, "Ian Pratt" <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> Even better would be to have pCPUs addressable and listable explicitly as
>>> dotted tuples. That can be implemented entirely within the toolstack, and
>>> could even allow wildcarding of tuple components to efficiently express
>>> cpumasks.
>>
>> Yes, I'd certainly like to see the toolstack support dotted tuple notation.
>>
>> However, I just don't trust the toolstack to get this right unless xen has
>> already set it up nicely for it with a sensible enumeration and defined
>> sockets-per-node, cores-per-socket and threads-per-core parameters. Xen 
>> should
>> provide a clean interface to the toolstack in this respect.
>
> Xen provides a topology-interrogation hypercall which should suffice for
> tools to build up a {node,socket,core,thread}<->cpuid mapping table.
>
>  -- Keir
>
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