On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:47:41 +0400 Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> qemu 2.1 can be linked with libnuma to support memory placement/pinning
> on a NUMA node. We should build-depend on libnuma-dev.
>
> However there are 2 issues with this, on libnuma side:
>
> 1) #682853 -- each new libnuma release will result in waiting for libnuma
> testing migration, because libnuma reverse dependencies are set too
strong.
> We had enough of this with librados (ceph) already.
This seems to be fixed in 2.0.10-1 (jessie release)
>
> 2) it is not arch-all package (or linux-all), instead, only certain
arches
> are supported (#724824 #739725). So we will have to follow libnuma
> uploads and enable extra architectures once they'll be available.
Looking at the buildlogs, it seems that all the linux architectures are
building (well the code is compiling, the generation of the .deb files
are failing) except on the armel and armhf ones.
I've a NMU ready, I'll wait for a few days for the feedback of the
numactl maintainer before uploading it to the delayed queue.
>
> So I'm not sure it's okay to enable libnuma-dev build-dependency at
this point.
