Re: [libvirt] memory pinning problem

Hi, we try to use vcpu pinning on a 2 socket server with Intel Xeon E5620 cpus, HT enabled and 2*6*16GiB Ram but experience problems if we try to start a guest on the second socket: error: Failed to start domain test error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: kvm_init_vcpu failed: Cannot allocate memory Libvirt version 1.1.1 Linux 3.11-rc7 Because I coudn't find any other service which allowed a 7M file upload, I put the log file and everything else which could perhabs be relevant into a github repository: https://github.com/David-Weber/vcpu-pinning When we try to start a guest on the first node it runs fine: <vcpu placement='static' cpuset='0-3,8-11'>4</vcpu> <numatune> <memory mode='strict' nodeset='0'/> </numatune> Starting it on the second node fails <vcpu placement='static' cpuset='4-7,12-15'>4</vcpu> <numatune> <memory mode='strict' nodeset='1'/> </numatune> Even more strange, starting it with the CPUs of the second node and the memory of the first node works: <vcpu placement='static' cpuset='4-7,12-15'>4</vcpu> <numatune> <memory mode='strict' nodeset='0'/> </numatune> The log file contains these three cases. Using the placement='auto' parameter leads to the same problem. If numad return the second node, the guest won't start. Is this a configuration, a libvirt or a cgroup problem? :)