[Engine-devel] CPU Pinning @engine

[Dor Laor]

On 05/17/2012 11:15 PM, Doron Fediuck wrote:
> On 17/05/12 20:28, Ayal Baron wrote:
>> "Live migration will not be supported for such VM's."
>>
>> Migration will work on homogeneous clusters so this should not be enforced (not limited to VMs which are pinned to host) just give a warning.
>>
> I agree, but if we wish to ping vCPUx to pCPUy in host a, we cannot ensure to have the same in host b,
> since it may have pCPUy too busy, so performance will degrade. Also, I hope you saw my general comment

Performance may degrade on any migration to loaded host regardless of 
pinning.

There is not need to forbid migration. Instead, the SLA assurance policy 
should verify the dedicated resources and match the target w/ the 
guarantee and decide according to this.

> about starting with a humble solution and gradually improving. In this context (auto)numa can help us,
> so we better do numa than handle migration for basic mode, risking performance issues.
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Doron Fediuck"<dfediuck at redhat.com>
>>> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:42:46 PM
>>> Subject: [Engine-devel] CPU Pinning @engine
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> Currently the VDSM has a CPU pinning hook.
>>> We'd like to add better support of it into the engine itself.
>>> Here's a design draft to cover it:
>>> http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/Design/cpu-pinning
>>>
>>> Please review and comment if needed.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> --
>>>
>>> /d
>>>
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