On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 01:27:59PM +0800, Zhong, Luyao wrote:
On 8/3/2020 7:00 PM, Martin Kletzander wrote:On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 05:31:56PM +0800, Luyao Zhong wrote:Hi Libvirt experts, I would like enhence the numatune snippet configuration. Given a example snippet: <domain>  ...  <numatune>   <memory mode="strict" nodeset="1-4,^3"/>   <memnode cellid="0" mode="strict" nodeset="1"/>   <memnode cellid="2" mode="preferred" nodeset="2"/>  </numatune>  ... </domain> Currently, attribute mode is either 'interleave', 'strict', or 'preferred', I propose to add a new 'default' option. I give the reason as following. Presume we are using cgroups v1, Libvirt sets cpuset.mems for all vcpu threads according to 'nodeset' in memory element. And translate the memnode element to qemu config options (--object memory-backend-ram) for per numa cell, which invoking mbind() system call at the end.[1] But what if we want using default memory policy and request each guest numa cell pinned to different host memory nodes? We can't use mbind via qemu config options, because (I quoto here) "For MPOL_DEFAULT, the nodemask and maxnode arguments must be specify the empty set of nodes." [2] So my solution is introducing a new 'default' option for attribute mode. e.g. <domain>  ...  <numatune>   <memory mode="default" nodeset="1-2"/>   <memnode cellid="0" mode="default" nodeset="1"/>   <memnode cellid="1" mode="default" nodeset="2"/>  </numatune>  ... </domain> If the mode is 'default', libvirt should avoid generating qemu command line '--object memory-backend-ram', and invokes cgroups to set cpuset.mems for per guest numa combining with numa topology config. Presume the numa topology is : <cpu>  ...  <numa>   <cell id='0' cpus='0-3' memory='512000' unit='KiB' />   <cell id='1' cpus='4-7' memory='512000' unit='KiB' />  </numa>  ... </cpu> Then libvirt should set cpuset.mems to '1' for vcpus 0-3, and '2' for vcpus 4-7. Is this reasonable and feasible? Welcome any comments.There are couple of problems here. The memory is not (always) allocated by the vCPU threads. I also remember it to not be allocated by the process, but in KVM in a way that was not affected by the cgroup settings.Thanks for your reply. Maybe I don't get what you mean, could you give me more context? But what I proposed will have no effect on other memory allocation.
Check how cgroups work. We can set the memory nodes that a process will allocate from. However to set the node for the process (thread) QEMU needs to be started with the vCPU threads already spawned (albeit stopped). And for that QEMU already allocates some memory. Moreover if extra memory was allocated after we set the cpuset.mems it is not guaranteed that it will be allocated by the vCPU in that NUMA cell, it might be done in the emulator instead or the KVM module in the kernel in which case it might not be accounted for the process actually causing the allocation (as we've already seen with Linux). In all these cases cgroups will not do what you want them to do. The last case might be fixed, the first ones are by default not going to work.
That might be fixed now, however. But basically what we have against is all the reasons why we started using QEMU's command line arguments for all that.I'm not proposing use QEMU's command line arguments, on contrary I want using cgroups setting to support a new config/requirement. I give a solution about if we require default memory policy and memory numa pinning.
And I'm suggesting you look at the commit log to see why we *had* to add these command line arguments, even though I think I managed to describe most of them above already (except for one that _might_ already be fixed in the kernel). I understand the git log is huge and the code around NUMA memory allocation was changing a lot, so I hope my explanation will be enough.
Thanks, LuyaoSorry, but I think it will more likely break rather than fix stuff. Maybe this could be dealt with by a switch in `qemu.conf` with a huge warning above it.I'm not trying to fix something, I propose how to support a new requirement just like I stated above.
I guess we should take a couple of steps back, I don't get what you are trying to achieve. Maybe if you describe your use case it will be easier to reach a conclusion.
Have a nice day, MartinRegards, Luyao [1]https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/f2a1cf9180f63e88bb38ff21c169da97c3f2bad5/backends/hostmem.c#L379 [2]https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mbind.2.html -- 2.25.1
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