[libvirt-users] picking a NUMA cell for pinning using virsh freecell

Hi I'd want to pin the vcpu of a guest to a pcpu. the docs clearly say https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6... "Locking a guest to a particular NUMA node offers no benefit if that node does not have sufficient free memory for that guest. libvirt stores information on the free memory available on each node. Use the virsh freecell --all command to display the free memory on all NUMA nodes " I have tried to look at what freecell returns and heuristically its total across cells looks roughly the same value returned by the 'free' command but without discounting buffers and cache. While free is able to show the value when buffers/cache are taken into account, free is not able to apportion that to NUMA cells. So is it really a valid strategy to choose the NUMA cell for pinning vcpus looking at virsh freecell or ideally we'd need those values adjusted with buffers+cache ? And if so how could one do that ? -------------------------------------------------- regards, Edoardo Comar IBM SWG UK - Hursley JTC ecomar(a)uk.ibm.com Tel +44 (0)1962 81 5576 (external) 245576 (internal) IBM UK Ltd, Hursley, SO21 2JN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU