Re: [PATCH] libxl: avoid considering pCPUs outside of the cpupool during NUMA placement

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:56:14AM +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> During NUMA automatic placement, the information
> of how many vCPUs can run on what NUMA nodes is used,
> in order to spread the load as evenly as possible.
> 
> Such information is derived from vCPU hard and soft
> affinity, but that is not enough. In fact, affinity
> can be set to be a superset of the pCPUs that belongs
> to the cpupool in which a domain is but, of course,
> the domain will never run on pCPUs outside of its
> cpupool.
> 
> Take this into account in the placement algorithm.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
> Reported-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
> ---
> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Cc: Anshul Makkar <anshul.makkar@citrix.com>
> ---
> Wei, this is bugfix, so I think it should go in 4.8.
> 

Yes. I agree.

> Ian, this is bugfix, so I think it is a backporting candidate.
> 
> Also, note that this function does not respect the libxl coding style, as far
> as error handling is concerned. However, given that I'm asking for it to go in
> now and to be backported, I've tried to keep the changes to the minimum.
> 
> I'm up for a follow up patch for 4.9 to make the style compliant.
> 
> Thanks, Dario
> ---
>  tools/libxl/libxl_numa.c |   25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_numa.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_numa.c
> index 33289d5..f2a719d 100644
> --- a/tools/libxl/libxl_numa.c
> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_numa.c
> @@ -186,9 +186,12 @@ static int nr_vcpus_on_nodes(libxl__gc *gc, libxl_cputopology *tinfo,
>  {
>      libxl_dominfo *dinfo = NULL;
>      libxl_bitmap dom_nodemap, nodes_counted;
> +    libxl_cpupoolinfo cpupool_info;
>      int nr_doms, nr_cpus;
>      int i, j, k;
>  
> +    libxl_cpupoolinfo_init(&cpupool_info);
> +

Please move this into the loop below, see (*).

>      dinfo = libxl_list_domain(CTX, &nr_doms);
>      if (dinfo == NULL)
>          return ERROR_FAIL;
> @@ -205,12 +208,18 @@ static int nr_vcpus_on_nodes(libxl__gc *gc, libxl_cputopology *tinfo,
>      }
>  
>      for (i = 0; i < nr_doms; i++) {
> -        libxl_vcpuinfo *vinfo;
> -        int nr_dom_vcpus;
> +        libxl_vcpuinfo *vinfo = NULL;

This is not necessary because vinfo is written right away.

> +        int cpupool, nr_dom_vcpus;
> +

(*) here.

> +        cpupool = libxl__domain_cpupool(gc, dinfo[i].domid);
> +        if (cpupool < 0)
> +            goto next;
> +        if (libxl_cpupool_info(CTX, &cpupool_info, cpupool))
> +            goto next;
>  
>          vinfo = libxl_list_vcpu(CTX, dinfo[i].domid, &nr_dom_vcpus, &nr_cpus);
>          if (vinfo == NULL)
> -            continue;
> +            goto next;
>  
>          /* Retrieve the domain's node-affinity map */
>          libxl_domain_get_nodeaffinity(CTX, dinfo[i].domid, &dom_nodemap);
> @@ -220,6 +229,12 @@ static int nr_vcpus_on_nodes(libxl__gc *gc, libxl_cputopology *tinfo,
>               * For each vcpu of each domain, it must have both vcpu-affinity
>               * and node-affinity to (a pcpu belonging to) a certain node to
>               * cause an increment in the corresponding element of the array.
> +             *
> +             * Note that we also need to check whether the cpu actually
> +             * belongs to the domain's cpupool (the cpupool of the domain
> +             * being checked). In fact, it could be that the vcpu has affinity
> +             * with cpus in suitable_cpumask, but that are not in its own
> +             * cpupool, and we don't want to consider those!
>               */
>              libxl_bitmap_set_none(&nodes_counted);
>              libxl_for_each_set_bit(k, vinfo[j].cpumap) {
> @@ -228,6 +243,7 @@ static int nr_vcpus_on_nodes(libxl__gc *gc, libxl_cputopology *tinfo,
>                  int node = tinfo[k].node;
>  
>                  if (libxl_bitmap_test(suitable_cpumap, k) &&
> +                    libxl_bitmap_test(&cpupool_info.cpumap, k) &&
>                      libxl_bitmap_test(&dom_nodemap, node) &&
>                      !libxl_bitmap_test(&nodes_counted, node)) {
>                      libxl_bitmap_set(&nodes_counted, node);
> @@ -236,7 +252,10 @@ static int nr_vcpus_on_nodes(libxl__gc *gc, libxl_cputopology *tinfo,
>              }
>          }
>  
> + next:
> +        libxl_cpupoolinfo_dispose(&cpupool_info);
>          libxl_vcpuinfo_list_free(vinfo, nr_dom_vcpus);
> +        vinfo = NULL;

This is not necessary as vinfo is rewritten at the beginning of every
loop.

>      }
>  
>      libxl_bitmap_dispose(&dom_nodemap);
> 

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