Hi,
this patch series introduces multiple NUMA nodes support within KVM guests.
This is the second try incorporating several requests from the list:
- use the QEMU firmware configuration interface instead of CMOS-RAM
- detect presence of libnuma automatically, can be disabled with
./configure --disable-numa
This only applies to the host side, the command line and guest (BIOS)
side are always built and functional, although this configuration
is only useful for research and debugging
- use a more flexible command line interface allowing:
- specifying the distribution of memory across the guest nodes:
mem:1536M;512M
- specifying the distribution of the CPUs:
cpu:0-2;3
- specifying the host nodes the guest nodes should be pinned to:
pin:3;2
All of these options are optional, in case of mem and cpu the resources
are split equally across all guest nodes if omitted. Please note that at
least in Linux SRAT takes precedence over E820, so the total usable
memory will be the sum specified at the mem: option (although QEMU will
still allocate the amount at -m).
If pin: is omitted, the guest nodes will be pinned to those host nodes
where the threads are happen to be scheduled at on start-up time. This
requires the (v)getcpu (v)syscall to be usable, this is true for kernels
up from 2.6.19 and glibc >= 2.6 (sched_getcpu()). I have a hack if glibc
doesn't support this, tell me if you are interested.
The only non-optional argument is the number of guest nodes, a possible
command line looks like:
-numa 3,mem:1024M;512M;512M,cpu:0-1;2;3
Please note that you have to quote the semicolons on the shell.
The monitor command is left out for now and will be send later.
Please apply.
Regards,
Andre.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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