Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 6/7] qemu: Set cpuset.cpus for domain process

When either "cpuset" of <vcpu> is specified, or the "placement" of <vcpu> is "auto", only setting the cpuset.mems might cause the guest starting to fail. E.g. ("placement" of both <vcpu> and <numatune> is "auto"): 1) Related XMLs <vcpu placement='auto'>4</vcpu> <numatune> <memory mode='strict' placement='auto'/> </numatune> 2) Host NUMA topology % numactl --hardware available: 8 nodes (0-7) node 0 cpus: 0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 node 0 size: 16374 MB node 0 free: 11899 MB node 1 cpus: 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 node 1 size: 16384 MB node 1 free: 15318 MB node 2 cpus: 2 6 10 14 18 22 26 30 node 2 size: 16384 MB node 2 free: 15766 MB node 3 cpus: 34 38 42 46 50 54 58 62 node 3 size: 16384 MB node 3 free: 15347 MB node 4 cpus: 3 7 11 15 19 23 27 31 node 4 size: 16384 MB node 4 free: 15041 MB node 5 cpus: 35 39 43 47 51 55 59 63 node 5 size: 16384 MB node 5 free: 15202 MB node 6 cpus: 1 5 9 13 17 21 25 29 node 6 size: 16384 MB node 6 free: 15197 MB node 7 cpus: 33 37 41 45 49 53 57 61 node 7 size: 16368 MB node 7 free: 15669 MB 4) cpuset.cpus will be set as: (from debug log) 2013-05-09 16:50:17.296+0000: 417: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:331 : Set value '/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/libvirt/qemu/toy/cpuset.cpus' to '0-63' 5) The advisory nodeset got from querying numad (from debug log) 2013-05-09 16:50:17.295+0000: 417: debug : qemuProcessStart:3614 : Nodeset returned from numad: 1 6) cpuset.mems will be set as: (from debug log) 2013-05-09 16:50:17.296+0000: 417: debug : virCgroupSetValueStr:331 : Set value '/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/libvirt/qemu/toy/cpuset.mems' to '0-7' I.E, the domain process's memory is restricted on the first NUMA node, however, it can use all of the CPUs, which will very likely cause the domain process to fail to start because of the kernel fails to allocate memory with the possible mismatching between CPU nodes and memory nodes.

@@ -665,9 +666,35 @@ qemuSetupCpusetCgroup(virDomainObjPtr vm, } } + if (vm->def->cpumask || + (vm->def->placement_mode == + VIR_DOMAIN_CPU_PLACEMENT_MODE_AUTO)) {

+ if (vm->def->placement_mode == + VIR_DOMAIN_CPU_PLACEMENT_MODE_AUTO) + cpu_mask = virBitmapFormat(nodemask); + else + cpu_mask = virBitmapFormat(vm->def->cpumask); + + if (!cpu_mask) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", + _("failed to convert memory nodemask")); + goto cleanup; + } + + rc = virCgroupSetCpusetCpus(priv->cgroup, cpu_mask); + + if (rc != 0) { + virReportSystemError(-rc, + _("Unable to set cpuset.cpus for domain %s"), + vm->def->name); + goto cleanup; + } + } + ret = 0; cleanup: - VIR_FREE(mask); + VIR_FREE(mem_mask); + VIR_FREE(cpu_mask); return ret;