[Bug 1439280] Re: Libvirt CPU affinity error

2015-04-12 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
@Matt: Since you're farily certain that this is specific to Ubuntu, then I hope Ubuntu's Nova package maintainers will take a look. . . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to nova in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1439

[Bug 1439280] Re: Libvirt CPU affinity error

2015-04-09 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
Matt, you're right, allow me to correct myself below. Short: I still cannot reproduce it. I just tested it below in a Single node DevStack with today's Nova git with the Nova instance being QEMU emulated, but I cannot reproduce the said failure in this bug description. Test environment -

[Bug 1439280] Re: Libvirt CPU affinity error

2015-04-09 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
Yes, to test CPU pinning/NUMA with libvirt you ought to use Nested KVM. Please report results after testing with that. That said, some notes below. Quoting Dan Berrange from a different review with a complete response on *why*: It is fundamentally impossible to test CPU pinning with TCG (aka