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With the addition of "numa_node" properties for PHBs we began advertising NUMA affinity in cases where nb_numa_nodes > 1. Since the default on the guest side is to make no assumptions about PHB NUMA affinity (defaulting to -1), there is still a valid use-case for explicitly defining a PHB's NUMA affinity even when there's just one node. In particular, some workloads make faulty assumptions about /sys/bus/pci/<devid>/numa_node being >= 0, warranting the use of this property as a workaround even if there's just 1 PHB or NUMA node. Enable this use-case by always advertising the PHB's NUMA affinity if "numa_node" has been explicitly set. We could achieve this by relaxing the check to simply be nb_numa_nodes > 0, but even safer would be to check numa_info[nodeid].present explicitly, and to fail at start time for cases where it does not exist. This has an additional affect of no longer advertising PHB NUMA affinity unconditionally if nb_numa_nodes > 1 and "numa_node" property is unset/-1, but since the default value on the guest side for each PHB is also -1, the behavior should be the same for that situation. We could still retain the old behavior if desired, but the decision seems arbitrary, so we take the simpler route. Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Cc: Shivaprasad G. Bhat <shivapbh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>pull/22/merge
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