Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH v2 05/24] numa: move source of default CPUs to NUMA node mapping into boards

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 02:56:59PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
[...]
> @@ -378,14 +379,16 @@ void parse_numa_opts(MachineClass *mc)
>           * rule grouping VCPUs by socket so that VCPUs from the same socket
>           * would be on the same node.
>           */
> +        if (!mc->cpu_index_to_instance_props) {
> +            error_report("default CPUs to NUMA node mapping isn't 
> supported");
> +            exit(1);
> +        }

This will make people trying to use -numa on unsupported machines
see a misleading error message: instead of telling them that the
machine doesn't support NUMA at all, the message seems to imply
that NUMA may be supported and we just don't have default NUMA node
mapping support.

Probably a more generic "NUMA is not supported by this
machine-type" message before even trying to parse -numa would be
clearer. (I don't know if another patch in this series already
does that.)

-- 
Eduardo