[openstack-dev] [openstack-dev[[nova] Simple question about sorting CPU topologies

Zhenyu Zheng zhengzhenyulixi at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 02:45:59 UTC 2017


Sorry, The mail sent accidentally by mis-typing ...

My question is, what is the benefit of the above preference?

BR,
Kevin

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Zhenyu Zheng <zhengzhenyulixi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/
> nova/virt/hardware.py#L396 we calculated every possible CPU topologies
> and sorted by:
> # We want to
> # - Minimize threads (ie larger sockets * cores is best)
> # - Prefer sockets over cores
> possible = sorted(possible, reverse=True,
> key=lambda x: (x.sockets * x.cores,
> x.sockets,
> x.threads))
>
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