[Libvir] [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Tested NUMA patches for available memory and topology

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:52:51PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> # src/virsh capabilities
> [...]
>   <topology>
>     <cells num='1'>
>       <cell id='0'>
>         <cpus num='4'>
>            <cpu id='0'/>
>            <cpu id='1'/>
>            <cpu id='2'/>
>            <cpu id='3'/>
>         </cpus>
>       </cell>
>     </cells>
>   </topology>

Do we really need such verbose XML. At the very least the 'num' attribute
is redundant, since you can trivially do count(/topology/cells/cell) or
count(/topology/cells/cell[@id=0]/cpus/cpu) XPath exprs in both cases.

The addition of extra tags every time we have a list is not the style we
have normally used in libvirt. eg, we don't use

    <disks>
       <disk>
          ..
       </disk>
       <disk>
          ..
       </disk>
    </disk>

to surround the list of disks in a domain.

I'd prefer to see it looking more like this:

   <topology>
     <cell id='0'> 
       <cpu id='0'/>
       <cpu id='1'/>
       <cpu id='2'/>
       <cpu id='3'/>
     </cell>
   </topology>

Regards,
Dan.
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