Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] qemu-options.hx: Document hmat-lb and hmat-cache order

[Igor Mammedov]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:17:35 +0200
Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> wrote:

> To simplify internal implementation the hmat-cache parsing code
> expects hmat-lb to be already parsed. This means, that hmat-lb
> arguments must come before hmat-cache. Document this restriction
> so that management applications can follow it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

> ---
>  qemu-options.hx | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
> index b1a399079a..3fe9e6d6a0 100644
> --- a/qemu-options.hx
> +++ b/qemu-options.hx
> @@ -319,6 +319,9 @@ SRST
>      'none/direct(direct-mapped)/complex(complex cache indexing)'. policy
>      is the write policy. line is the cache Line size in bytes.
>  
> +    Please note, that due to internal implementation, '\ ``hmat-cache``\ '
> +    must be configured only after '\ ``hmat-lb``\ ' option.
> +
>      For example, the following options describe 2 NUMA nodes. Node 0 has
>      2 cpus and a ram, node 1 has only a ram. The processors in node 0
>      access memory in node 0 with access-latency 5 nanoseconds,