On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:08:18 +1100 David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 08:41:03PM +0100, Greg Kurz wrote: <snip> > > > > It breaks migration of pre-2.7 machine types with unusual CPU topologies, > > but I guess this is an acceptable trade-off. > > No, not really. Weird topologies are still allowed on old machine > types for backwards compatibility, and we shouldn't break that. I > like the idea of consolidating this calculation, but we can't do it by > just breaking the older machines (at least not until they're formally > deprecated). > Heh, I had put this patch at the end because I was expecting you might nack it :) Per curiosity, when/how do we decide that an older machine type may be formally deprecated ?
