[Users] Ovirt does'nt recognize "Quad-core AMD Opteron" as Opteron

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hideo GOTO" <morpheus.eis at gmail.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:27:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt does'nt recognize "Quad-core AMD Opteron" as	Opteron
> 
> Dear Yaniv Kaul,
> 
> Thanks for your propmt anwer.
> It seems that your patience did not allow your reading to continue
> after "CPU_TYPE_INCOMPATIBLE_WITH_CLUSTER".

That sounds a little rude to me, maybe that's not the way you intended it.

Looking at the flags it looks like you are missing NX[1] this might be disabled in the bios, or perhaps not supported in the bios ?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit
> 


> As reported in the last part of my previous mail, the output from
> vdsClient shows us that the processor is recognised as none of AMD
> Opteron G1, G2 or G3 (cpuFlags=...) . Thus, Quad-core AMD 2384 cannot
> match any of  Ovirt CPU type options. For confriming, I have just
> tried, upon reciept of your reply, to add the host to cluster of
> other
> CPU types (G1, G2 ..) , to get the same unfortunate result.
> 
> For your comparaison, here-below shows the "cpuFlags"  reported for
> an
> AMD Opteron 4284, which Ovirt can treat as either of AMD Opteron
> G3,G2
> and G1 :
> 
> [root at ovnode02 admin]# vdsClient -s 0 getVdsCaps|grep cpuFlags|grep
> cpuFlags
>         cpuFlags =
> fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ht,syscall,nx,mmxext,fxsr_opt,pdpe1gb,rdtscp,lm,constant_tsc,rep_good,nopl,nonstop_tsc,extd_apicid,aperfmperf,pni,pclmulqdq,monitor,ssse3,cx16,sse4_1,sse4_2,popcnt,aes,xsave,avx,lahf_lm,cmp_legacy,svm,extapic,cr8_legacy,abm,sse4a,misalignsse,3dnowprefetch,osvw,ibs,xop,skinit,wdt,lwp,fma4,nodeid_msr,topoext,perfctr_core,arat,cpb,npt,lbrv,svm_lock,nrip_save,tsc_scale,vmcb_clean,flushbyasid,decodeassists,pausefilter,pfthreshold,model_486,model_pentium,model_pentium2,model_pentium3,model_pentiumpro,model_qemu32,model_coreduo,model_qemu64,model_core2duo,model_n270,model_Conroe,model_Penryn,model_Nehalem,model_Westmere,model_Opteron_G1,model_Opteron_G2,model_Opteron_G3
> 
> 
> 2012/6/14 Hideo GOTO <morpheus.eis at gmail.com>:
> > Dear sirs,
> >
> > We added a HP DL365-G5 server with 2 x "Quad-core AMD Opteron 2384"
> > to
> > a working ovirt-node cluster ( CPU type of the cluster = "AMD
> > Opteron
> > G3". Existing node servers use AMD Opteron 4284) . Then, the
> > Ovirt-engine refuses to intergrate DL365-G5, reporting an error of
> > the
> > type: "CPU_TYPE_INCOMPATIBLE_WITH_CLUSTER".
> >
> > Ovirt (RHEV) does'nt support AMD Opteron 2xxx series , though they
> > are
> > KVM compatible? (This HP DL365 worked fine with VMWare).
> >
> > Any solution, advise, comment is wellcome, since we do not much
> > want
> > to revirt to VMWare.
> >
> > FIY, On the ovirt-engine's node information, "CPU Name" is reported
> > as
> > [N/A] and "CPU Type" as "Quad-Core AMD"
> >
> > Here below is the content of the /proc/cpuinfo on the HP DL365-G5:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > processor       : 7
> > vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> > cpu family      : 16
> > model           : 4
> > model name      : Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2384
> > stepping        : 2
> > microcode       : 0x1000086
> > cpu MHz         : 2700.096
> > cache size      : 512 KB
> > physical id     : 1
> > siblings        : 4
> > core id         : 3
> > cpu cores       : 4
> > apicid          : 7
> > initial apicid  : 7
> > fpu             : yes
> > fpu_exception   : yes
> > cpuid level     : 5
> > wp              : yes
> > flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr
> > pge
> > mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall mmxext
> > fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good
> > nopl
> > nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy
> > svm
> > extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs
> > skinit
> > wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
> > bogomips        : 5400.44
> > TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
> > clflush size    : 64
> > cache_alignment : 64
> > address sizes   : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> > power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > According to vdsClient's info as shown below, Quad-core Opteron  is
> > recognized as if it were a good old 32 bit CPU.
> >
> > [root at ovnode04 admin]# vdsClient -s 0 getVdsCaps|grep cpuFlags|grep
> > cpuFlags
> >        cpuFlags =
> > fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ht,syscall,mmxext,fxsr_opt,pdpe1gb,rdtscp,lm,3dnowext,3dnow,constant_tsc,rep_good,nopl,nonstop_tsc,extd_apicid,pni,monitor,cx16,popcnt,lahf_lm,cmp_legacy,svm,extapic,cr8_legacy,abm,sse4a,misalignsse,3dnowprefetch,osvw,ibs,skinit,wdt,npt,lbrv,svm_lock,nrip_save,model_486,model_pentium,model_pentium2,model_pentium3,model_pentiumpro,model_qemu32,model_athlon
> >
> > Best RGDS
> >
> > Hideo GOTO
> >
> > P.S.
> > vdsClient tells us : kvmEnabled=true
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