[RFC PATCH] hw/arm/virt: Add support for NUMA on ARM64

[Peter Maydell]

On 2 December 2014 at 12:56, Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong at huawei.com> wrote:
> Add support for NUMA on ARM64. Tested successfully running a guest
> Linux kernel with the following patch applied:
>
> - arm64:numa: adding numa support for arm64 platforms.
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg365316.html
>
> Example qemu command line:
> qemu-system-aarch64 \
>     -enable-kvm -smp 4\
>     -kernel Image \
>     -m 512 -machine virt,kernel_irqchip=on \
>     -initrd guestfs.cpio.gz \
>     -cpu host -nographic \
>     -numa node,mem=256M,cpus=0-1,nodeid=0 \
>     -numa node,mem=256M,cpus=2-3,nodeid=1 \
>     -append "console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/ram"

Thanks for sending this patch. Unfortunately I know very
little about NUMA so it's a bit difficult for me to
evaluate (would anybody else care to look at it?).
Nevertheless, it's on my list of patches to review;
ping me if I don't get to it within a week or two.

-- PMM