[openstack-dev] problems with huge pages and libvirt

Steve Gordon sgordon at redhat.com
Mon Feb 2 19:08:04 UTC 2015


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Wells" <ijw.ubuntu at cack.org.uk>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
>
> On 2 February 2015 at 09:49, Chris Friesen <chris.friesen at windriver.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 02/02/2015 10:51 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:
> >
> >> This is a bug that I discovered when fixing some of the NUMA related nova
> >> objects. I have a patch that should fix it up shortly.
> >>
> >
> > Any chance you could point me at it or send it to me?
> >
> >  This is what happens when we don't have any functional testing of stuff
> >> that is
> >> merged into master...
> >>
> >
> > Indeed.  Does tempest support hugepages/NUMA/pinning?
> >
> 
> This is a running discussion, but largely no - because this is ited to the
> capabilities of the host, there's no guarantee for a given scenario what
> result you would get (because Tempest will run on any hardware).
> 
> If you have test cases that should pass or fail on a NUMA-capable node, can
> you write them up?  We're working on NUMA-specific testing right now
> (though I'm not sure who, specifically, is working on the test case side of
> that).

Vladik and Sean (CC'd) are working on these.

Thanks,

Steve



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