vepa-mode directly attached interface
by Gionatan Danti
Hi all,
I just realized that libvirt default for directly attached interface is
vepa mode.
I discovered it now because virt-manager automatically enables bridge
mode, while cockpit-machines get the default vepa mode. This is
unfortunate because, being vepa switches very rare, it means that using
cockpit to configure directly attached interfaces causes guests to not
talk each other.
I have some questions:
- can libvirt default be changed/configured somehow (ie: to
automatically create bridge-mode directly attached interface when no
mode is specified)?
- how can I use virsh to discover machines with vepa-mode interfaces
(virsh domiflist <domain> does not return the interface mode)?
- can I change the interface type at runtime (virt-xml <domain> --edit
--network type=direct,source.mode=bridge works for inactive domains
only)?
Thanks.
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2 years, 1 month
[Libvirt][emulator-cores][dpdk] Emulatorpin cpuset best practices
by Laurent Dumont
Hey folks,
I am curious to understand a bit more the core use of the emulatorpin CPUs
with libvirt.
For example :
<vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='34'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='14'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='10'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='30'/>
<emulatorpin cpuset='10,14,30,34'/>
In this case :
- The VM has 4 vCPUs.
- Each of the core is pinned to a physical/thread core - 34,14,10,30
- The emulatorpin is also attached to the same physical CPUs.
In our case :
- Same setup for cores.
- Running DPDK inside the virtual machine.
- The compute/libvirt is using OVS but without DPDK.
What we saw is the following :
- DPDK is polling two cores at 100% to process packets.
- From the compute metrics, we see USER %usage at 100% when the
application starts.
- From the compute metrics, as traffic increases, we see %SYSTEM going
up.
- As %SYSTEM goes up, %USER goes down.
We are not quite sure, but we are wondering if this could cause a direct
impact to the ability of DPDK to process traffic at the same X speed?
- We can "live" move the emulator CPU to other cores.
- This seems to be the recommended default setup for VNF/NFV deployments.
Feels like I am missing a piece of the puzzle but gotta start somewhere!
Thanks!
2 years, 1 month
how to use "virsh shutdown domain --mode [initctl|signal|paravirt) ?
by Lentes, Bernd
Hi,
ocasionally my Virtual Domains running on a pacmekaer cluster don't shutdown, although beeing told to do it.
"virsh help shutdown" says:
...
--mode <string> shutdown mode: acpi|agent|initctl|signal|paravirt
How is it possible to use initctl or signal or paravirt ?
What do i have to do ? What are the prerequisites ?
Bernd
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2 years, 1 month