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From: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Subject: Re: NUMA TODO-list for xen-devel
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:43:28 +0200
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On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 12:02 +0200, Andre Przywara wrote:
> On 08/01/2012 06:16 PM, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > ...
> >
> >         * automatic placement of Dom0, if possible (my current series i=
s
> >           only affecting DomU)
>=20
> I think Dom0 NUMA awareness should be one of the top priorities. If I=20
> boot my 8-node box with Xen, I end up with a NUMA-clueless Dom0 which=20
> actually has memory from all 8 nodes and thinks it's memory is flat.
>
Ok, I updated the Wiki page with a link to this (sub)thread --- more
specifically, the mails where we agree about the new syntax. I can work
on it, but not in the next few days, so let's see if anyone steps up
before I get to look at it. :-)

> > [D] - NUMA aware scheduling in Xen. Don't pin vcpus on nodes' pcpus,
> >        just have them _prefer_ running on the nodes where their memory
> >        is.
>=20
> This would be really cool. I once thought about something like a=20
> home-node. We start with placement to allocate memory from one node.=20
> Then we relax the VCPU-pinning, but mark this node as special for this=
=20
> guest, so that it if possible happens to get run there. But in times of=
=20
> CPU pressure we are happy to let it run on other nodes: CPU starving is=
=20
> much worse than NUMA penalty.
>=20
Yep. Patches coming soon.

Thanks and Regards,
Dario

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<<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
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