On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 02:19:00PM +0200, Vasilis Liaskovitis wrote:
qemu-kvm passes numa/SRAT topology information for smp_cpus to SeaBIOS. However
SeaBIOS always expects to setup max_cpus number of SRAT cpu entries
(MaxCountCPUs variable in build_srat function of Seabios). When qemu-kvm runs
with smp_cpus != max_cpus (e.g. -smp 2,maxcpus=4), Seabios will mistakenly use
memory SRAT info for setting up CPU SRAT entries for the offline CPUs. Wrong
SRAT memory entries are also created. This breaks NUMA in a guest.
Fix by setting up SRAT info for max_cpus in qemu-kvm.
Signed-off-by: Vasilis Liaskovitis vasilis.liaskovitis@profitbricks.com
It looks okay to me, but I'd like to see an Ack from a QEmu or KVM
maintainer.
-Kevin