Before this patch set, numatune only has three memory modes: static, interleave and prefered. These memory policies are ultimately set by mbind() system call.
Memory policy could be 'hard coded' into the kernel, but none of above policies fit our requirment under this case. mbind() support default memory policy, but it requires a NULL nodemask. So obviously setting allowed memory nodes is cgroups' mission under this case. So we introduce a new option for mode in numatune named 'restrictive'. <numatune> <memory mode="restrictive" nodeset="1-4,^3"/> <memnode cellid="0" mode="restrictive" nodeset="1"/> <memnode cellid="2" mode="restrictive" nodeset="2"/> </numatune> The config above means we only use cgroups to restrict the allowed memory nodes and not setting any specific memory policies explicitly. RFC discussion: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-November/msg01256.html Regards, Luyao Luyao Zhong (3): docs: add docs for 'restrictive' option for mode in numatune schema: add 'restrictive' config option for mode in numatune qemu: add parser and formatter for 'restrictive' mode in numatune docs/formatdomain.rst | 7 +++- docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 2 + include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h | 1 + src/conf/numa_conf.c | 9 +++++ src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 6 ++- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 27 +++++++++++++ src/util/virnuma.c | 3 ++ .../numatune-memnode-invalid-mode.err | 1 + .../numatune-memnode-invalid-mode.xml | 33 +++++++++++++++ ...emnode-restrictive-mode.x86_64-latest.args | 40 +++++++++++++++++++ .../numatune-memnode-restrictive-mode.xml | 33 +++++++++++++++ tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 2 + ...memnode-restrictive-mode.x86_64-latest.xml | 40 +++++++++++++++++++ tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c | 1 + 14 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/numatune-memnode-invalid-mode.err create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/numatune-memnode-invalid-mode.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/numatune-memnode-restrictive-mode.x86_64-latest.args create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/numatune-memnode-restrictive-mode.xml create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/numatune-memnode-restrictive-mode.x86_64-latest.xml -- 2.25.4
