[Libvir] [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Tested NUMA patches for available memory and topology

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:46:04AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:06:24AM -0400, beth kon wrote:
> However I think there is at least a few things still left to be done
> before pushing this in a new release:
>   - if possible get remote operations for the new call

  well no progress on that I assume the release will be without it

>   - isolate as a separate call what is the total sum of free memory available
>     on the Node

  done virNodeGetFreeMemory(), but it's plugged only for Xen, no remote support
(where it would really be useful) nor QEmu back-end.

>   - a bit more testing for example I found out
>     virsh # freecell -1
>     Total: 64339968 kB
> 
>     virsh # freecell -2
>     -2: 0 kB

  withn previous change this could be checked

>   - on NUMA boxes in the capability dump I would like to see the
>     amount of memory available on the cell see
>     https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2007-September/msg00015.html
>     <memory size='2097152'/>
>     in the topology example.

  Apparently this is not available (the installed memory per cell not the
what is currently free).

>   - now that the code is in CVS reorganize a bit for example move back generic
>     code to xen_unified.c

  I didn't do that, I was afraid of breaking stuff I could not test at this
stage

Daniel

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