Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1][RFC] xen balloon driver numa support, libxl interface

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 12.08.13 at 16:18, Li Yechen <lccycc123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> HI Jan,
> 
>> ... new Xenbus node. Without (so far) a true view into the
>> host topology, even if you added a respective consumer to the
>> balloon driver, how would that driver honor such a request?
>> And even if it knew about host topology, unless the virtual
>> topology in the subject domain sufficiently closely resembled the
>> host's, it would - afaict - still have no way of obtaining suitable
>> memory from the page allocator.
>>
> Do you mean the kernel part?
> The modification of kernel is here:
> http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-08/msg01179.html 
> I still haven't find out how to generate two patches in one time....So I
> have to send two email, sorry

Sending two mails is fine - you just should have referred to
the other one in the description.

But that kernel change is very bogus; first of all you need
to clean it up to undo all the restoration of code that 3.11-rc
changed. And then you'll need to explain what the
correlation between virtual and physical node IDs is.

Jan


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