From 4932b8971bb6fa384ce8c1c61db744b22ba83dce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luiz Capitulino Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 17:43:10 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] man: improve -numa doc The -numa option documentation in qemu's manpage lacks the command-line options and some information regarding how it relates to options -m and -smp. This commit fills in the missing text. Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Hu Tao Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin --- qemu-options.hx | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index ab06df1e01..06111a67cd 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -97,10 +97,14 @@ ETEXI DEF("numa", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_numa, "-numa node[,mem=size][,cpus=cpu[-cpu]][,nodeid=node]\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) STEXI -@item -numa @var{opts} +@item -numa node[,mem=@var{size}][,cpus=@var{cpu[-cpu]}][,nodeid=@var{node}] @findex -numa -Simulate a multi node NUMA system. If mem and cpus are omitted, resources -are split equally. +Simulate a multi node NUMA system. If @samp{mem} +and @samp{cpus} are omitted, resources are split equally. Also, note +that the -@option{numa} option doesn't allocate any of the specified +resources. That is, it just assigns existing resources to NUMA nodes. This +means that one still has to use the @option{-m}, @option{-smp} options +to allocate RAM and VCPUs respectively. ETEXI DEF("add-fd", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_add_fd, -- GitLab