[Xen-devel] Re: xl miss the logic of memory allocation on NUMA platform

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Zhang, Yang Z wrote:
> Hi Stefano
> In our recently experience, we found xl doesn't have the memory allocation 
> logic on NUMA platform. It will allocate the memory from every node when 
> creating guest:
> (XEN) Domain 4 (total: 261112):
> (XEN)     Node 0: 64894
> (XEN)     Node 1: 65406
> (XEN)     Node 2: 65406
> (XEN)     Node 3: 65406
> 
> For xm, it will allocate the memory on the node where the guest cpu reside:
> 1348 (XEN) Domain 3 (total: 263160):
> 1349 (XEN)     Node 0: 0
> 1350 (XEN)     Node 1: 0
> 1351 (XEN)     Node 2: 0
> 1352 (XEN)     Node 3: 263160
> 
> Is there a plan to add this logic to xl?

I think we forgot about this feature but it is important and hopefully
somebody will write a patch for it before 4.2 is out.

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