Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2 2/2] qemu: Set up EMULATOR thread and cpuset.mems before exec()-ing qemu

It's funny how this went unnoticed for such a long time. Long story short, if a domain is configured with VIR_DOMAIN_NUMATUNE_MEM_STRICT libvirt doesn't really honour that. This is because of 7e72ac787848 after which libvirt allowed qemu to allocate memory just anywhere and only after that it used some magic involving cpuset.memory_migrate and cpuset.mems to move the memory to desired NUMA nodes. This was done in order to work around some KVM bug where KVM would fail if there wasn't a DMA zone available on the NUMA node. Well, while the work around might stopped libvirt tickling the KVM bug it also caused a bug on libvirt side: if there is not enough memory on configured NUMA node(s) then any attempt to start a domain must fail. Because of the way we play with guest memory domains can start just happily. The solution is to move the child we've just forked into emulator cgroup, set up cpuset.mems and exec() qemu only after that.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c index 47d8ca2ff1..076ec18e21 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c @@ -6653,6 +6653,14 @@ qemuProcessLaunch(virConnectPtr conn, if (qemuProcessInitCpuAffinity(vm) < 0) goto cleanup; + VIR_DEBUG("Setting emulator tuning/settings"); + if (qemuProcessSetupEmulator(vm) < 0) + goto cleanup; + + VIR_DEBUG("Setting up post-init cgroup restrictions");

+ if (qemuSetupCpusetMems(vm) < 0)

+ goto cleanup; + VIR_DEBUG("Setting cgroup for external devices (if required)"); if (qemuSetupCgroupForExtDevices(vm, driver) < 0) goto cleanup; @@ -6744,10 +6752,6 @@ qemuProcessLaunch(virConnectPtr conn, if (qemuProcessDetectIOThreadPIDs(driver, vm, asyncJob) < 0) goto cleanup; - VIR_DEBUG("Setting emulator tuning/settings"); - if (qemuProcessSetupEmulator(vm) < 0) - goto cleanup; - VIR_DEBUG("Setting global CPU cgroup (if required)"); if (qemuSetupGlobalCpuCgroup(vm) < 0) goto cleanup; -- 2.21.0 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list