[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: -numa doesn't (yet) support disjoint range

[Michal Privoznik]

On 27.02.2013 04:08, Eric Blake wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896092 mentions that
> qemu 1.4 and earlier only accept a simple start-stop range for
> the cpu=... argument of -numa.  Libvirt would attempt to use
> -numa cpu=1,3 for a disjoint range, which did not work as intended.
> 
> Upstream qemu will be adding a new syntax for disjoint cpu ranges
> in 1.5; but the design for that syntax is still under discussion
> at the time of this patch.  So for libvirt 1.0.3, it is safest to
> just reject attempts to build an invalid qemu command line; in the
> future, we can add a capability bit and translate to the final
> accepted design for selecting a disjoint cpu range in numa.
> 
> * src/qemu/qemu_command.c (qemuBuildNumaArgStr): Reject disjoint
> ranges.
> ---
> 
> Also in response to:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-February/msg01414.html
> 
>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

ACK I and think safe being pushed even during current freeze.

Michal