Self over allocating VCPUs is not a good idea. If your machine only has 4 CPUs and you expose that as 5 CPUs to a guest, you'll get pathologically bad performance as the guest tries to optimize workloads across those, which are causing cache flushes in the CPUs below.
Definitely in the Won't Fix category ** Changed in: nova Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1707085 Title: Max_unit should account for allocation_ratio Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Won't Fix Bug description: It's great that the Placement API v1.4 provides a way to query for hosts that can fulfill a set of allocations. However, because the max_unit doesn't account for allocation_ratio, the result is not as expected. For example, my host has a total of 4 vCPU and 2 vCPU have been allocated. cpu_allocation_ratio is 3. I expect that this host is considered a qualified host if I make a request to the <placement api>/resource_providers?resources=VCPU:5 because Capacity = (total- reserved) x allocation_ratio - used which is 10. However, because the max_unit is set as the total which is 4, my host is not in the response although it can fulfill the requested allocation. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1707085/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp