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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/11] PV NUMA Guests

To: Dulloor <dulloor@xxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/11] PV NUMA Guests
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:29:03 +0100
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>, "Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@xxxxxxxxx>
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I would like Acks from the people working on HVM NUMA for this patch series.
At the very least it would be nice to have a single user interface for
setting this up, regardless of whether for a PV or HVM guest. Hopefully code
in the toolstack also can be shared. So I'm cc'ing Dexuan and Andre, as I
know they are involved in the HVM NUMA work.

 Thanks,
 Keir

On 04/04/2010 20:30, "Dulloor" <dulloor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The set of patches implements virtual NUMA-enlightenment to support
> NUMA-aware PV guests. In more detail, the patch implements the
> following :
> 
> * For the NUMA systems, the following memory allocation strategies are
> implemented :
>  - CONFINE : Confine the VM memory allocation to a single node. As
> opposed to the current method of doing this in python, the patch
> implements this in libxc(along with other strategies) and with
> assurance that the memory actually comes from the selected node.
> - STRIPE : If the VM memory doesn't fit in a single node and if the VM
> is not compiled with guest-numa-support, the memory is allocated
> striped across a selected max-set of nodes.
> - SPLIT : If the VM memory doesn't fit in a single node and if the VM
> is compiled with guest-numa-support, the memory is allocated split
> (equally for now) from the min-set of nodes. The  VM is then made
> aware of this NUMA allocation (virtual NUMA enlightenment).
> -DEFAULT : This is the existing allocation scheme.
> 
> * If the numa-guest support is compiled into the PV guest, we add
> numa-guest-support to xen features elfnote. The xen tools use this to
> determine if SPLIT strategy can be applied.
> 
> * The PV guest uses the virtual NUMA enlightenment to setup its NUMA
> layout (at the time of initmem_init)
> 
> Please comment.
> 
> -dulloor
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dulloor Rao <dulloor@xxxxxxxxxx>



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