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From: "Andre Przywara" <andre.przywara@amd.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] [HVM] NUMA support in HVM guests
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:01:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C02BE0.2070400@amd.com> (raw)

Hi,

these four patches allow to forward NUMA characteristics into HVM
guests. This works by allocating memory explicitly from different NUMA 
nodes and create an appropriate SRAT-ACPI table which describes the 
topology. Needs a decent guest kernel which uses the SRAT table to 
discover the NUMA topology.
This allows to break the current de-facto limitation of guests to one 
NUMA node, one can use more memory and/or more VCPUs than there are 
available on one node.

	Patch 1/4: introduce numanodes=n config file option.
this states how many NUMA nodes the guest should see, the default 	is 0, 
which means to turn off most parts of the code.
	Patch 2/4: introduce CPU affinity for allocate_physmap call. currently 
the correct NUMA node to take the memory from is chosen by simply using 
the currently scheduled CPU, this patch allows to explicitly specify a 
CPU and provides XENMEM_DEFAULT_CPU for the old behavior
	Patch 3/4: allocate memory with NUMA in mind.
actually look at the numanodes=n option to split the memory request up
into n parts and allocate it from different nodes. Also change the VCPUs
affinity to match the nodes.
	Patch 4/4: inject created SRAT table into the guest.
create a SRAT table, fill it up with the desired NUMA topology and
inject it into the guest

Applies against staging c/s #15719.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>

Regards,
Andre.

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-08-13 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-13 10:01 Andre Przywara [this message]
2007-09-07  8:42 ` [PATCH 0/4] [HVM] NUMA support in HVM guests Xu, Anthony
2007-09-07 12:49   ` Andre Przywara
2007-09-10  1:14     ` Xu, Anthony
2007-11-23  8:42       ` [PATCH 0/4] [HVM][RFC] " Duan, Ronghui
2007-11-23 14:23         ` [RFC] NUMA support Andre Przywara
2007-11-24 15:57           ` Duan, Ronghui

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