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From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3 of 4 v6/leftover] libxl: have NUMA
 placement deal with cpupools
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:38:57 +0100
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To: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
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Dario Faggioli writes ("[PATCH 3 of 4 v6/leftover] libxl: have NUMA placement deal with cpupools"):
> In such a way that only the cpus belonging to the cpupool of the
> domain being placed are considered for the placement itself.
> 
> This happens by filtering out all the nodes in which the cpupool
> has not any cpu from the placement candidates. After that ---as
> cpu pooling not necessarily happens at NUMA nodes boundaries--- we
> also make sure only the actual cpus that are part of the pool are
> considered when counting how much processors a placement candidate
> provides.

Is this patch essential for the 4.2 release ?

Ian.