Re: [PATCH] spapr_numa.c: FORM2 table handle nodes with no distance info

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 03:52:13PM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/5/21 10:51, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > A configuration that specifies multiple nodes without distance info
> > results in the non-local points in the FORM2 matrix having a distance of
> > 0. This causes Linux to complain "Invalid distance value range" because
> > a node distance is smaller than the local distance.
> > 
> > Fix this by building a simple local / remote fallback for points where
> > distance information is missing.
> 
> Thanks for looking this up. I checked the output of this same scenario with
> a FORM1 guest and 4 distance-less NUMA nodes. This is what I got:
> 
> [root@localhost ~]# numactl -H
> available: 4 nodes (0-3)
> (...)
> node distances:
> node   0   1   2   3
>   0:  10  160  160  160
>   1:  160  10  160  160
>   2:  160  160  10  160
>   3:  160  160  160  10
> [root@localhost ~]#
> 
> 
> With this patch we're getting '20' instead of '160' because you're using
> NUMA_DISTANCE_DEFAULT, while FORM1 will default this case to the maximum
> NUMA distance the kernel allows for that affinity (160).
> 
> I do not have strong feelings about changing this behavior between FORM1 and
> FORM2. I tested the same scenario with a x86_64 guest and they also uses '20'
> in this case as well, so far as QEMU goes using NUMA_DISTANCE_DEFAULT is
> consistent.
> 
> Aneesh is already in CC, so I believe he'll let us know if there's something
> we're missing and we need to preserve the '160' distance in FORM2 for this
> case as well.
> 
> For now:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> > ---
> 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>

Applied to ppc-for-6.2, thanks.

> 
> 
> 
> >   hw/ppc/spapr_numa.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
> >   1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_numa.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_numa.c
> > index 5822938448..56ab2a5fb6 100644
> > --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_numa.c
> > +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_numa.c
> > @@ -546,12 +546,24 @@ static void spapr_numa_FORM2_write_rtas_tables(SpaprMachineState *spapr,
> >                * NUMA nodes, but QEMU adds the default NUMA node without
> >                * adding the numa_info to retrieve distance info from.
> >                */
> > -            if (src == dst) {
> > -                distance_table[i++] = NUMA_DISTANCE_MIN;
> > -                continue;
> > +            distance_table[i] = numa_info[src].distance[dst];
> > +            if (distance_table[i] == 0) {
> > +                /*
> > +                 * In case QEMU adds a default NUMA single node when the user
> > +                 * did not add any, or where the user did not supply distances,
> > +                 * the value will be 0 here. Populate the table with a fallback
> > +                 * simple local / remote distance.
> > +                 */
> > +                if (src == dst) {
> > +                    distance_table[i] = NUMA_DISTANCE_MIN;
> > +                } else {
> > +                    distance_table[i] = numa_info[src].distance[dst];
> > +                    if (distance_table[i] < NUMA_DISTANCE_MIN) {
> > +                        distance_table[i] = NUMA_DISTANCE_DEFAULT;
> > +                    }
> > +                }
> >               }
> > -
> > -            distance_table[i++] = numa_info[src].distance[dst];
> > +            i++;
> >           }
> >       }
> > 
> 

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