[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] numa: Rewrite virNumaGetNodeCPUs() to query CPUs dynamically.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:53:31AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> numa_node_to_cpus() uses an internal cache to store the mapping
> between NUMA nodes and CPUs (see Bug #1213835), which means
> long-running processes such as libvirtd will get stale data if
> CPU hotplugging is used during their lifetime.
> 
> The function has been rewritten to collect the information
> directly from sysfs.
> ---
>  src/util/virnuma.c | 158 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
>  1 file changed, 81 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)

It seems to me that every application that uses libnuma is going to
potentially suffer from the same problem. As such I don't think it
is a good use of effort to workaround it in libvirt - it should be
fixed in libnuma itself, so every applications benefits from the
fix.

So, NACK to this.

Regards,
Daniel
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