[Openstack-operators] Puzzling issue: Unacceptable CPU info: CPU doesn't have compatibility

David Medberry openstack at medberry.net
Fri Jul 17 13:31:29 UTC 2015


Thanks Daniel. Oddly, pretty sure we're not using the numa scheduler but
I'll triple check. Thanks for the info on the "known bug" part, that's even
better.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 06:58:46AM -0600, David Medberry wrote:
> > HI Daniel,
> >
> > Yep found that all out.
> >
> > Now I'm struggling through the NUMA mismatch. NUMA as there are two cpus.
> > The old CPU was a 10 core 20 thread thus 40 "cpus", {0-9,20-29} and then
> > {10-19,30-39} on the other cell. The new CPU is a 12 core 24 thread.
> > Apparently even in kilo, this results in a mismatch if I'm running a 2
> VCPU
> > guest and trying to migrate from new to old. I suspect I have to disable
> > NUMA somehow (filter, etc) but it is entirely non-obvious. And of course
> > I'm doing this again in OpenStack nova (not direct libvirt) so I'm going
> to
> > do a bit more research and then file a new bug. This also may be fixed in
> > Kilo but I"m not finding it (and it may be fixed in Liberty already and
> > just need a backport.)
> >
> > My apologies for not following up to the list once I found the Kilo
> > solution to the original problem.
>
> The fact that Nova doesn't rewrite numa topology on migrate is a known
> bug which Nikola is working on fixing in Liberty. IIRC, you ought to be
> able to avoid it by just disabling the NUMA schedular filter.
>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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