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Dear Openstack user community,

I have a compute node with 2 numa nodes and I would like to create 2 vms, each one using a different numa node through numa affinity with cpu, memory and nvme pci devices.

Openstack flavor
openstack flavor create --public xlarge.numa.perf.test --ram 200000 --disk 700 --vcpus 20 --property hw:cpu_policy=dedicated --property hw:emulator_threads_policy=isolate --property hw:numa_nodes='1' --property pci_passthrough:alias='nvme:4'

The first vm is successfully created
openstack server create --network hpc --flavor xlarge.numa.perf.test --image centos7.6-image --availability-zone nova:zeus-53.localdomain --key-name mykey kudu-1

However the second vm fails
openstack server create --network hpc --flavor xlarge.numa.perf --image centos7.6-kudu-image --availability-zone nova:zeus-53.localdomain --key-name mykey kudu-4

Errors in nova compute node
2019-09-27 16:45:19.785 7 ERROR nova.compute.manager [req-b5a25c73-8c7d-466c-8128-71f29e7ae8aa 91e83343e9834c8ba0172ff369c8acac b91520cff5bd45c59a8de07c38641582 - default default] [instance: ebe4e78c-501e-4535-ae15-948301cbf1ae] Instance failed to spawn: libvirtError: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: 2019-09-27T06:45:19.118089Z qemu-kvm: kvm_init_vcpu failed: Cannot allocate memory
2019-09-27 16:45:19.785 7 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: ebe4e78c-501e-4535-ae15-948301cbf1ae] libvirtError: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: 2019-09-27T06:45:19.118089Z qemu-kvm: kvm_init_vcpu failed: Cannot allocate memory
2019-09-27 16:45:19.785 7 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: ebe4e78c-501e-4535-ae15-948301cbf1ae]

Numa cell/node 1 (the one assigned on kudu-4) has enough cpu, memory, pci devices and disk capacity to fit this vm. NOTE: below is the information relevant I could think of that shows resources available after creating the second vm.

[root at zeus-53 ~]# numactl -H
available: 2 nodes (0-1)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41
node 0 size: 262029 MB
node 0 free: 52787 MB
node 1 cpus: 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55
node 1 size: 262144 MB
node 1 free: 250624 MB
node distances:
node   0   1
  0:  10  21
  1:  21  10
NOTE: this is to show that numa node/cell 1 has enough resources available (also nova-compute logs shows that kudu-4 is assigned to cell 1)

[root at zeus-53 ~]# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md127      3.7T  9.1G  3.7T   1% /
...
NOTE: vm disk files goes to root (/) partition

[root at zeus-53 ~]# lsblk
NAME                                                                                         MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                                                            8:0    0 59.6G  0 disk
├─sda1                                                                                         8:1    0    1G  0 part  /boot
└─sda2                                                                                         8:2    0   16G  0 part  [SWAP]
nvme0n1                                                                                      259:8    0  1.8T  0 disk
└─nvme0n1p1                                                                                  259:9    0  1.8T  0 part
  └─md127                                                                                      9:127  0  3.7T  0 raid0 /
nvme1n1                                                                                      259:6    0  1.8T  0 disk
└─nvme1n1p1                                                                                  259:7    0  1.8T  0 part
  └─md127                                                                                      9:127  0  3.7T  0 raid0 /
nvme2n1                                                                                      259:2    0  1.8T  0 disk
nvme3n1                                                                                      259:1    0  1.8T  0 disk
nvme4n1                                                                                      259:0    0  1.8T  0 disk
nvme5n1                                                                                      259:3    0  1.8T  0 disk
NOTE: this is to show that there are 4 nvme disks (nvme2n1, nvme3n1, nvme4n1, nvme5n1) available for the second vm

What "emu-kvm: kvm_init_vcpu failed: Cannot allocate memory" means in this context?

Thank you very much
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