Looks like there is only a single call-back function --
qemudSecurityHook() -- which has had some cgroup and CPU affinity code
already added in it.
Perhaps a good approach would be to add an invocation of a new function
-- qemudInitMemAffinity() -- as a peer to the already present invocation
of qemudInitCpuAffinity(). The qemudInitMemAffinity() function could
use set_mempolicy() to bind or prefer local/specific memory (depending
on whether the user specifies the explicit memory node list as mandatory
or just advisory). Advisory / preferred won't work correctly for large,
multi-node guests until multiple nodes can be preferred (presumably
selected by amount of free memory resources when multiple nodes are
preferred). It would also be helpful to have an additional attribute to
specify interleaved memory.
How does this approach sound?
On 05/06/2011 09:24 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:20:18PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
ä 2011å05æ06æ 17:23, Daniel P. Berrange åé:
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 04:30:30PM -0400, Bill Gray wrote:
Hi Daniel,
How can we get NUMA-aligned memory and CPUs if we apply binding APIs
after the process has already started? Might not all the memory
already be allocated on the wrong nodes by then?
The policy has to be set after fork'ing the new QEMU process, but
before exec'ing QEMU. This is essentially what you're doing with
numactl, but with the problem of an extra binary that screws up
the SELinux domain transitions from libvirtd_t -> svirt_t.
For expert users, what are the problems with starting qemu with an
external numactl command (with --cpunodebind and --membind) to
guarantee optimal alignment?
Adding an intermediate process will prevent the neccessary SELinux
domain transitions from working. We don't want to allow the
numactl binary to be able to transition to svirt_t because that
would be inappropriate for most users of numactl
This make sense, as you said in another mail, perhaps we need to do some
work on __virExec, will make v2 series. Thanks for feedback.
Not virExec, but rather in the QEMU exec hook function
Daniel
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