Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vl.c: Support multiple CPU ranges on -numa option

[Markus Armbruster]

Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden>
> ---
> 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.