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Adding Nikola as he has been working on this.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aubrey Wells" <awells at digiumcloud.com>
> To: openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
> 
> Greetings,
> Trying to decide if this is a bug or just a config option that I can't
> find. The setup I'm currently testing in my lab with is two compute nodes
> running Kilo, one has 40 cores (2x 10c with HT) and one has 16 cores (2x 4c
> + HT). I don't have any CPU pinning enabled in my nova config, which seems
> to have the effect of setting in libvirt.xml a vcpu cpuset element like (if
> created on the 40c node):
> 
> <vcpu
> cpuset="1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39">1</vcpu>
> 
> And then if I migrate that instance to the 16c node, it will bomb out with
> an exception:
> 
> Live Migration failure: Invalid value
> '0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38' for 'cpuset.cpus':
> Invalid argument
> 
> Which makes sense, since that node doesn't have any vcpus after 15 (0-15).
> 
> I can fix the symptom by commenting out a line in
> nova/virt/libvirt/config.py (circa line 1831) so it always has an empty
> cpuset and thus doesn't write that line to libvirt.xml:
> # vcpu.set("cpuset", hardware.format_cpu_spec(self.cpuset))
> 
> And the instance will happily migrate to the host with less CPUs, but this
> loses some of the benefit of openstack trying to evenly spread out the core
> usage on the host, at least that's what I think the purpose of that is.
> 
> I'd rather fix it the right way if there's a config option I don't see or
> file a bug if its a bug.
> 
> What I think should be happening is that when it creates the libvirt
> definition on the destination compute node, it write out the correct cpuset
> per the specs of the hardware its going on to.
> 
> If it matters, in my nova-compute.conf file, I also have cpu mode and model
> defined to allow me to migrate between the two different architectures to
> begin with (the 40c is Sandybridge and the 16c is Westmere so I set it to
> the lowest common denominator of Westmere):
> 
> cpu_mode=custom
> cpu_model=Westmere
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> ---------------------
> Aubrey
> 
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