Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2 0/2] qemu: Honor memory mode='strict'

Hi, I've tested these patches again, twice, in similar setups like I tested the first version (first in a Power8, then in a Power9 server). Same results, though. Libvirt will not avoid the launch of a pseries guest, with numanode=strict, even if the numa node does not have available RAM. If I stress test the memory of the guest to force the allocation, QEMU exits with an error as soon as the memory of the host numa node is exhausted.

If I change the numanode setting to 'preferred' and repeats the test, QEMU doesn't exit with an error - the process starts to take memory from other numa nodes. This indicates that the numanode policy is apparently being forced in the QEMU process - however, it is not forced in VM boot. I've debugged it a little and haven't found anything wrong that jumps the eye. All functions that succeeds qemuSetupCpusetMems exits out with ret = 0. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a x86 server with more than one NUMA node to compare results. Since I can't say for sure if what I'm seeing is an exclusive pseries behavior, I see no problem into pushing this series upstream if it makes sense for x86. We can debug/fix the Power side later.