Re: [libvirt] Question : Configuring a VM with backing 1G huge pages across 2 NUMA nodes
[CCing Martin Kletzander]
On 12.09.2014 08:25, Vinod, Chegu wrote:
Hi Michal,
‘have a kernel+qemu+libvirt setup with all recent upstream bits on a
given host & was trying to configure a VM with backing 1G huge
pages…spanning 2 NUMA nodes.
The host had 3 1G huge pages on each of the 2 NUMA nodes :
# cat
/sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
3
# cat
/sys/devices/system/node/node1/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
3
And I had the following in the /etc/fstab
hugetlbfs /hugepages_1G hugetlbfs pagesize=1GB 0 0
I added the following entries in the xml file for the 4G/4vcpu VM
<memoryBacking>
<hugepages>
<page size='1048576' unit='KiB' nodeset='0'/>
<page size='1048576' unit='KiB' nodeset='1'/>
</hugepages>
</memoryBacking>
<vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu>
<cputune>
<vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='1'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='8'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='9'/>
</cputune>
….
<numatune>
<memory node=”strict” nodeset=”0-1”/>
[This is a copy-paste error, right? It should have been s/node/mode/]
This is incomplete. This basically says nothing more than: All the guest
numa nodes must be placed on host numa nodes 0-1. And the qemu command
line that libvirt came up with satisfied the constrain.
You may wan to pin guest numa nodes to host numa nodes like this:
A) use <memory mode="interleave" placement="static"
nodeset="0-1"/>
I haven't tested myself, but IIRC correctly, this should start
placing guest numa nodes sequentially over host numa nodes 0-1. So
You'll end up with:
host0: guest0, guest2
host1: guest1, guest3
b) use the manual guest <-> host pinning:
<numatune>
<memory mode='strict' nodeset='0-1'/>
<memnode cellid='0' mode='strict' nodeset='0'/>
<memnode cellid='1' mode='strict' nodeset='0'/>
<memnode cellid='2' mode='strict' nodeset='1'/>
<memnode cellid='3' mode='strict' nodeset='1'/>
</numatune>
This will tie guest0 and guest1 onto host0, and guest2 and guets3 onto
host1.
I must admit this is not the bit I've implemented, so I don't know all
the details. Therefore I'm CCing Martin Kletzander, who's done the major
piece of work in this field.
</numatune>
….
<cpu>
<numa>
<cell id='0' cpus='0-1' memory='2097152'/>
<cell id='1' cpus='2-3' memory='2097152'/>
</numa>
</cpu>
The resulting qemu command looked like this :
/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name vm1 -S -machine
pc-i440fx-2.2,accel=kvm,usb=off \
-m 4096 -realtime mlock=off -smp 4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1 \
-object
memory-backend-file,prealloc=yes,mem-path=/hugepages_1G/libvirt/qemu,size=2048M,id=ram-node0,host-nodes=0-1,policy=bind
-numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0-1,memdev=ram-node0 \
-object
memory-backend-file,prealloc=yes,mem-path=/hugepages_1G/libvirt/qemu,size=2048M,id=ram-node1,host-nodes=0-1,policy=bind
-numa node,nodeid=1,cpus=2-3,memdev=ram-node1 \
....
There were 3 1G pages available on each NUMA node on the host as shown
above... and I noticed that the VM got backed by 3 1G pages from node0
and 1 1G page from node1.
#cat
/sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages
0
# cat
/sys/devices/system/node/node1/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages
2
Not sure if this was expected behavior given the options I specified in
the xml file ? If yes…Is there some additional option to specify (in the
XML file) such that only a given number of 1Gig huge pages per node are
picked to back the VM (i.e. in the above case just 2 1G from each node) ?
Thanks!
Vinod
Hopefully, my answer is sufficient, Martin?
Michal