Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/3] machine: show if CLI option '-numa node, mem' is supported in QAPI schema

[Markus Armbruster]

Igor Mammedov <address@hidden> writes:

> Legacy '-numa node,mem' option has a number of issues and mgmt often
> defaults to it. Unfortunately it's no possible to replace it with
> an alternative '-numa memdev' without breaking migration compatibility.
> What's possible though is to deprecate it, keeping option working with
> old machine types only.
>
> In order to help users to find out if being deprecated CLI option
> '-numa node,mem' is still supported by particular machine type, add new
> "numa-mem-supported" property to output of query-machines.
>
> "numa-mem-supported" is set to 'true' for machines that currently support
> NUMA, but it will be flipped to 'false' later on, once deprecation period
> expires and kept 'true' only for old machine types that used to support
> the legacy option so it won't break existing configuration that are using
> it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>