Re: [libvirt] [Question] qemu cpu pinning
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:59:32PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
Hi,
When I run a VM(qemu-0.13) on my host with the latest libvirt,
I used following settings.
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<domain type='kvm' id='1'>
<name>RHEL6</name>
<uuid>f7ad6bc3-e82a-1254-efb0-9e1a87d83d88</uuid>
<memory>2048000</memory>
<currentMemory>2048000</currentMemory>
<vcpu cpuset='4-7'>2</vcpu>
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I expected all works for this domain will be tied to cpu 4-7.
After minites, I checked the VM behavior and it shows
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[root@bluextal src]# cat /cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/RHEL6/cpuacct.usage_percpu
0 511342 3027636 94237 657712515 257104928 513463748303 252386161
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Hmm, cpu 1,2,3 are used for some purpose.
All threads for this qemu may be following.
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[root@bluextal src]# cat /cgroup/cpuacct/libvirt/qemu/RHEL6/tasks
25707
25727
25728
25729
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And I found
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[root@bluextal src]# grep Cpus /proc/25707/status
Cpus_allowed: f0
Cpus_allowed_list: 4-7
[root@bluextal src]# grep Cpus /proc/25727/status
Cpus_allowed: ff
Cpus_allowed_list: 0-7
[root@bluextal src]# grep Cpus /proc/25728/status
Cpus_allowed: f0
Cpus_allowed_list: 4-7
[root@bluextal src]# grep Cpus /proc/25729/status
Cpus_allowed: f0
Cpus_allowed_list: 4-7
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Thread 25727 has no limitation.
Is this an expected behavior and I need more setting in XML definition ?
Thanks,
-Kame
I would understand this as KVM threads used for running the guest
domain are properly pinned (and indeed the CPU usage for those threads
is way way higher than the other ones), but the threads used
internally by KVM for I/O processing are not pinned leading to
what you are seeing. But it's a wild guess... Another possiblility
could be that some kernel I/O or interrupt processing done on behalf
of the KVM process is accounted as such but the kernel doesn't respect
the CPU pinning for those.
[root@bluextal src]# grep Cpus /proc/25727/status
Cpus_allowed: ff
Cpus_allowed_list: 0-7
would clearly favor the first one for me, but it's a wild guess,
Daniel
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