[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] numa: deprecate implict memory distribution between nodes

[Igor Mammedov]

Implict RAM distribution between nodes has exactly the same issues as:
  "numa: deprecate 'mem' parameter of '-numa node' option"
only with QEMU being the user that's 'adding' 'mem' parameter.

Depricate it, to get it out of the way so that we could switch to
consistent guest RAM allocation using memory backends and possibly
memory devices later on top of that.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
---
 numa.c               | 3 +++
 qemu-deprecated.texi | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/numa.c b/numa.c
index 2205773..6d45a1f 100644
--- a/numa.c
+++ b/numa.c
@@ -409,6 +409,9 @@ void numa_complete_configuration(MachineState *ms)
         if (i == nb_numa_nodes) {
             assert(mc->numa_auto_assign_ram);
             mc->numa_auto_assign_ram(mc, numa_info, nb_numa_nodes, ram_size);
+            warn_report("Default splitting of RAM between nodes is deprecated,"
+                        " Use '-numa node,memdev' to explictly define RAM"
+                        " allocation per node");
         }
 
         numa_total = 0;
diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
index 73f99d4..09bec7d 100644
--- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
@@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ parameter @option{mem} to achieve the same fake NUMA effect 
or a properly
 configured @var{memory-backend-file} backend to actually benefit from NUMA
 configuration.
 
address@hidden -numa node (without memory specified) (since 4.0)
+
+Splitting RAM by default between NUMA nodes has the same issues as @option{mem}
+parameter described above with a difference that role of the user plays QEMU
+using generic splitting rule or a board specific one. Use @option{memdev} with
address@hidden backend to define mapping explictly instead.
+
 @section QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands
 
 @subsection block-dirty-bitmap-add "autoload" parameter (since 2.12.0)
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2.7.4