Re: VM Migration on a NUMA server?

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>]

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On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 13:10 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:41:11AM +0000, Kun Cheng wrote:
> > Let me be more specific, such idea is for the NUMA scheduling as currently
> > xen only migrate vcpus but leave memory at the previous node.
> > 
> 
> Xen doesn't support memory migration at the moment. However Xen scheduler
> won't migrate vcpus out of its NUMA node in most cases.
> 
Yes, as I said in my email, if soft affinity is used (and that's the
default, if anything contradicting that is specified in the confing
file) the vcpus are allowed to run outside of the NUMA node where the
memory has been allocated, but they'll try not to do so.

> I will let Dario (CC'ed) confirm. He might also able to give you
> pointers if you want to work on such feature.
> 
Thanks for the ping on this! :-)

Regards,
Dario
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