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[Xen-devel] Question about NUMA emulation

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Question about NUMA emulation
From: alex <leiye.xen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:19:24 -0700
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Hi all,
 
My machine is running 64bit-xen and 64bit-dom0. I am using Numa emulation by speicifying "numa=fake=16", which split 16GB memory into 16 virtual nodes. I traced the source code in page_alloc.c. The functions init_heap_pages and init_node_heap handle page range to the specified heap zone. In init_node_heap, I modify the code a little and let _heap[node] allocation occur on xenheap, say on virtual node 0. Then after all the nodes initialization, I printk all node information by invoking avail_heap_pages. However, I found nodes from 1 to 15 have lost one page, because each node should have 262144 pages( 1GB), but the result shows below:
 
node 0 = 261876
node 1 = 262143
node 2 = 262143
....
 
I also saw " Reserving non-aligned node boundary @ mfn 0x40000", " @mfn 0x8000 " and etc. in the "xm dmes".  I checked the code and found some comments in function init_heap_pages, saying
" Hand the specified arbitrary page range to the specified heap zone 
  checking the node_id of the previous page.  If they differ and the
  latter is not on a MAX_ORDER boundary, then we reserve the page by
 not freeing it to the buddy allocator."
 
I am wondering if the loss of a page is due to reserve the page not freeing back to buddy allocator. Is it possible to assign exactly 262144 pages to each virtual node ?
 
Thank you.
 
ALex
 
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