[openstack-dev] Efficiently pin running VMs to physical CPUs automatically

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Thu Jun 20 16:48:16 UTC 2013


On 06/20/2013 10:36 AM, Giorgio Franceschi wrote:
> Hello, I created a blueprint for the implementation of:
> 
> A tool for pinning automatically each running virtual CPU to a physical
> one in the most efficient way, balancing load across sockets/cores and
> maximizing cache sharing/minimizing cache misses. Ideally able to be run
> on-demand, as a periodic job, or be triggered by events on the host (vm
> spawn/destroy).
> 
> Find it at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/auto-cpu-pinning
> 
> Any inputappreciated!

I'm actually surprised to see a new tool for this kind of thing.

Have you seen numad?

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Russell Bryant



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