Re: [PATCH 2/3] qemu: Keep the affinity when creating cgroup for emulator thread

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On 10/24/2012 12:00 PM, Osier Yang wrote:
> When the cpu placement model is "auto", it sets the affinity for
> domain process with the advisory nodeset from numad, however,
> creating cgroup for the domain process (called emulator thread
> in some contexts) later overrides that with pinning it to all
> available pCPUs.
> 
> How to reproduce:
> 
>   * Configure the domain with "auto" placement for <vcpu>, e.g.
>     <vcpu placement='auto'>4</vcpu>
>   * % virsh start dom
>   * % cat /proc/$dompid/status
> 
> Though the emulator cgroup cause conflicts, but we can't simply
> prohibit creating it, as other tunables are still useful, such
> as "emulator_period", which is used by API
> virDomainSetSchedulerParameter. So this patch doesn't prohibit
> creating the emulator cgroup, but inherit the nodeset from numad,
> and reset the affinity for domain process.
> 
> * src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.h: Modify definition of qemuSetupCgroupForEmulator
>                           to accept the passed nodenet
> * src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c: Set the affinity with the passed nodeset
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c  |   17 ++++++++++++++---
>  src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.h  |    3 ++-
>  src/qemu/qemu_process.c |    2 +-
>  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c b/src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c
> index db371a0..8e99c01 100644
> @@ -698,6 +706,9 @@ int qemuSetupCgroupForEmulator(struct qemud_driver *driver,
>              if (rc < 0)
>                  goto cleanup;

In case you go to the cleanup here, cpumask is not free()'d.

>          }
> +
> +        if (def->placement_mode == VIR_DOMAIN_CPU_PLACEMENT_MODE_AUTO)
> +            virBitmapFree(cpumask);

You can free cpumap here or at the end and cleanup as well, no need for
checking the placement then.

>          cpumask = NULL; /* sanity */
>      }
>  

Martin

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