[Openstack] CPU pinning question

Satish Patel satish.txt at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 18:11:53 UTC 2015


@chris,

I already have "hw:cpu_policy": "dedicated"

[root at control ~(keystone_admin)]# nova flavor-show 8
+----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Property                   | Value
                                        |
+----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| OS-FLV-DISABLED:disabled   | False
                                        |
| OS-FLV-EXT-DATA:ephemeral  | 0
                                        |
| disk                       | 20
                                        |
| extra_specs                |
{"aggregate_instance_extra_specs:pinned": "true", "hw:cpu_policy":
"dedicated"} |
| id                         | 8
                                        |
| name                       | pinned.medium
                                        |
| os-flavor-access:is_public | True
                                        |
| ram                        | 2048
                                        |
| rxtx_factor                | 1.0
                                        |
| swap                       |
                                        |
| vcpus                      | 2
                                        |
+----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Chris Friesen
<chris.friesen at windriver.com> wrote:
> Actually no, I don't think that's right.  When pinning is enabled each vCPU
> will be affined to a single host CPU.  What is showing below is what I would
> expect if the instance was using non-dedicated CPUs.
>
> To the original poster, you should be using
>
> 'hw:cpu_policy': 'dedicated'
>
> in your flavor extra-specs to enable CPU pinning.  And you should enable the
> NUMATopologyFilter scheduler filter.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> On 12/15/2015 09:23 AM, Arne Wiebalck wrote:
>>
>> The pinning seems to have done what you asked for, but you probably
>> want to confine your vCPUs to NUMA nodes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Arne
>>
>>
>>> On 15 Dec 2015, at 16:12, Satish Patel <satish.txt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry forgot to reply all :)
>>>
>>> This is what i am getting
>>>
>>> [root at compute-1 ~]# virsh vcpupin instance-00000043
>>> VCPU: CPU Affinity
>>> ----------------------------------
>>>    0: 2-3,6-7
>>>    1: 2-3,6-7
>>>
>>>
>>> Following numa info
>>>
>>> [root at compute-1 ~]# numactl --hardware
>>> available: 2 nodes (0-1)
>>> node 0 cpus: 0 3 5 6
>>> node 0 size: 2047 MB
>>> node 0 free: 270 MB
>>> node 1 cpus: 1 2 4 7
>>> node 1 size: 2038 MB
>>> node 1 free: 329 MB
>>> node distances:
>>> node   0   1
>>>   0:  10  20
>>>   1:  20  10
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Arne Wiebalck <Arne.Wiebalck at cern.ch>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The pinning we set up goes indeed into the <cputune> block:
>>>>
>>>> —>
>>>> <vcpu placement='static'>32</vcpu>
>>>>   <cputune>
>>>>     <shares>32768</shares>
>>>>     <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0-7,16-23'/>
>>>>     <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='0-7,16-23'/>
>>>>>>>> <—
>>>>
>>>> What does “virsh vcpupin <domain>” give for your instance?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Arne
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 15 Dec 2015, at 13:02, Satish Patel <satish.txt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running JUNO version with qemu-kvm-ev-2.1.2-23.el7_1.9.1.x86_64
>>>>> on CentOS7.1
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to configure CPU pinning because my application is cpu
>>>>> hungry. this is what i did.
>>>>>
>>>>> in /etc/nova/nova.conf
>>>>>
>>>>> vcpu_pin_set=2,3,6,7
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have created aggregated host with pinning=true and created flavor
>>>>> with pinning, after that when i start VM on Host following this i can
>>>>> see in guest
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>> ...
>>>>> <vcpu placement='static' cpuset='2-3,6-7'>2</vcpu>
>>>>> ...
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> But i am not seeing any <cputune> info.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just want to make sure does my pinning working correctly or something
>>>>> is wrong. How do i verify my pinning config is correct?
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Arne Wiebalck
>>>> CERN IT
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Arne Wiebalck
>> CERN IT
>>
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