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Date:   Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:58:45 -0800
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/5] Add NUMA-awareness to qspinlock
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On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 09:17:05PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 1/24/20 8:59 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> >> You called it!  I will play with QEMU's -numa argument to see if I can get
> >> CNA to run for me.  Please accept my apologies for the false alarm.
> >>
> >> 							Thanx, Paul
> >>
> > CNA is not currently supported in a VM guest simply because the numa
> > information is not reliable. You will have to run it on baremetal to
> > test it. Sorry for that.
> 
> Correction. There is a command line option to force CNA lock to be used
> in a VM. Use the "numa_spinlock=on" boot command line parameter.

As I understand it, I need to use a series of -numa arguments to qemu
combined with the numa_spinlock=on (or =1) on the kernel command line.
If the kernel thinks that there is only one NUMA node, it appears to
avoid doing CNA.

Correct?

							Thanx, Paul