[PATCH 13/13] news: Document HMAT addition

Michal Privoznik posted 13 patches 5 years, 7 months ago
[PATCH 13/13] news: Document HMAT addition
Posted by Michal Privoznik 5 years, 7 months ago
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 2fc43c31b9..8990cdaf61 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ v6.5.0 (unreleased)
     alphabetical order. Hook script in old place will be executed
     as first for backward compatibility.
 
+  * Allow configuring of NUMA HMAT
+
+    Libvirt allows configuring Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table to hint
+    software running inside the guest on optimization.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
 * **Bug fixes**
-- 
2.26.2

Re: [PATCH 13/13] news: Document HMAT addition
Posted by Daniel Henrique Barboza 5 years, 7 months ago

On 6/24/20 10:49 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
> ---
>   NEWS.rst | 5 +++++
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
> index 2fc43c31b9..8990cdaf61 100644
> --- a/NEWS.rst
> +++ b/NEWS.rst
> @@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ v6.5.0 (unreleased)
>       alphabetical order. Hook script in old place will be executed
>       as first for backward compatibility.
>   
> +  * Allow configuring of NUMA HMAT
> +
> +    Libvirt allows configuring Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table to hint
> +    software running inside the guest on optimization.
> +
>   * **Improvements**

Please add an ACPI mention here like:


"Libvirt allows configuring ACPI Heterogeneous ...."


to avoid PPC64 devs like myself having to deal with "HMAT does not work in Power9"
bugs.


In fact, please mention that this is an ACPI exclusive feature in formatdomain.html.in
(patch 08/13) as well :)


Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>

>   
>   * **Bug fixes**
>