[ovirt-users] Re: numa pinning and reserved hugepages (1G) Bug in scheduler calculation or decision ?

Hello List, i ran into problems using numa-pinning and reserved hugepages. - My EPYC 7281 based Servers (Dual Socket) have 8 Numa-Nodes each having 32 GB of memory for a total of 256 GB System Memory - I'm using 192 x 1 GB hugepages reserved on the kernel cmdline default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=192 This reserves 24 hugepages on each numa-node. I wanted to pin a MariaDB VM using 32 GB (Custom Property hugepages=1048576) to numa-nodes 0-3 of CPU-Socket 1. Pinning in GUI etc. no problem. When trying to start the vm this can't be done since ovirt claims that the host can't fullfill the memory requirements - which is simply not correct since there were > 164 hugepages free. It should have taken 8 hugepages from each numa node 0-3 to fullfill the 32 GB Memory requirement. I also freed the system completely from other VM's but that didn't work either. Is it possible that the scheduler only takes into account the "free memory" (as seen in numactl -H below) *not reserved* by hugepages for its decisions ? Since the host has only < 8 GB of free mem per numa-node I can understand that VM was not able to start under that condition. VM is runnig and using 32 hugepages without pinning but a warning states "VM dbserver01b does not fit to a single NUMA node on host myhost.mydomain.de. This may negatively impact its performance. Consider using vNUMA and NUMA pinning for this VM." This is the numa Hardware Layout and hugepages usage now with other VM's running: from cat /proc/meminfo HugePages_Total: 192 HugePages_Free: 160 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 I can confirm that also under the condition of running other VM's there are at least 8 hugepages free for each numa-node 0-3: grep "" /sys/devices/system/node/*/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages /sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages:8 /sys/devices/system/node/node1/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages:23 /sys/devices/system/node/node2/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages:20 /sys/devices/system/node/node3/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages:22 /sys/devices/system/node/node4/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages:16 /sys/devices/system/node/node5/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages:5 /sys/devices/system/node/node6/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages:19 /sys/devices/system/node/node7/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages:24 numactl -h: available: 8 nodes (0-7) node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 32 33 34 35 node 0 size: 32673 MB node 0 free: 3779 MB node 1 cpus: 4 5 6 7 36 37 38 39 node 1 size: 32767 MB node 1 free: 6162 MB node 2 cpus: 8 9 10 11 40 41 42 43 node 2 size: 32767 MB node 2 free: 6698 MB node 3 cpus: 12 13 14 15 44 45 46 47 node 3 size: 32767 MB node 3 free: 1589 MB node 4 cpus: 16 17 18 19 48 49 50 51 node 4 size: 32767 MB node 4 free: 2630 MB node 5 cpus: 20 21 22 23 52 53 54 55 node 5 size: 32767 MB node 5 free: 2487 MB node 6 cpus: 24 25 26 27 56 57 58 59 node 6 size: 32767 MB node 6 free: 3279 MB node 7 cpus: 28 29 30 31 60 61 62 63 node 7 size: 32767 MB node 7 free: 5513 MB node distances: node 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0: 10 16 16 16 32 32 32 32 1: 16 10 16 16 32 32 32 32 2: 16 16 10 16 32 32 32 32 3: 16 16 16 10 32 32 32 32 4: 32 32 32 32 10 16 16 16 5: 32 32 32 32 16 10 16 16 6: 32 32 32 32 16 16 10 16 7: 32 32 32 32 16 16 16 10 -- *Ralf Schenk* fon +49 (0) 24 05 / 40 83 70 fax +49 (0) 24 05 / 40 83 759 mail *rs(a)databay.de* <rs(a)databay.de&gt; *Databay AG* Jens-Otto-Krag-Straße 11 D-52146 Würselen *www.databay.de* <http://www.databay.de> Sitz/Amtsgericht Aachen • HRB:8437 • USt-IdNr.: DE 210844202 Vorstand: Ralf Schenk, Dipl.-Ing. Jens Conze, Aresch Yavari, Dipl.-Kfm. Philipp Hermanns Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Wilhelm Dohmen ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/GXIWD6B6E3U...