On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:50:08AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > This allows ":" to be used a separator between each CPU range, so the > > command-line may look like: > > > > -numa node,cpus=A-B:C-D > > > > Note that the following format, currently used by libvirt: > > > > -numa nodes,cpus=A-B,C-D > > > > will _not_ work, as "," is the option separator for the command-line > > option parser, and it would require changing the -numa option parsing > > code to handle "cpus" as a special case. > > > > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > Changes v2: > > - Use ":" as separator > > - Document the new format > > See also discussion on multi-valued keys in command line option > arguments and config files in v1 thread. Hopefully we can reach a > conclusion soon, and then we'll see whether this patch is what we want. Yeah, let's drop this patch by now. I am starting to be convinced that "cpus=A,cpus=B,cpus=C" is the best approach. It is not pretty, but at least it uses generic parser code instead of yet another ad-hoc parser. -- Eduardo -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list