On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 05:09:24PM +0000, Bob Ball wrote: > Sorry, my point about numad being libvirt specific was that I > couldn't find references to other hypervisors using numad for > their placement. I recognise that it's not _tied_ to libvirt > but the reality seems to be that only libvirt uses it. > > Xen, for example, can't use numad because dom0 might only know > about a subset of the system - it'd make sense for dom0 to only > be placed on a single numa node. Xen does of course have its own > automatic placement to take account of the numa nodes - I assume > this is also true of other hypervisors. That is merely a limitation of the current impl, not a technology roadblock. numad could easily be made to ask the Xen hypervisor what the topology of the entire host was if that was desired for Xen. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|