Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] hostmem: NUMA-aware memory preallocation using ThreadContext

2022-09-21 Thread Michal Prívozník
On 9/21/22 16:54, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 21.09.22 16:44, Michal Prívozník wrote: >> On 7/21/22 14:07, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>> >> >> Ping? Is there any plan how to move forward? I have libvirt patches >> ready to consume this and I'd like to prune my old local branches :-) > > Heh, I wa

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] hostmem: NUMA-aware memory preallocation using ThreadContext

2022-09-21 Thread David Hildenbrand
On 21.09.22 16:44, Michal Prívozník wrote: On 7/21/22 14:07, David Hildenbrand wrote: Ping? Is there any plan how to move forward? I have libvirt patches ready to consume this and I'd like to prune my old local branches :-) Heh, I was thinking about this series just today. I was distracted

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] hostmem: NUMA-aware memory preallocation using ThreadContext

2022-09-21 Thread Michal Prívozník
On 7/21/22 14:07, David Hildenbrand wrote: > Ping? Is there any plan how to move forward? I have libvirt patches ready to consume this and I'd like to prune my old local branches :-) Michal

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] hostmem: NUMA-aware memory preallocation using ThreadContext

2022-08-11 Thread Joao Martins
On 8/9/22 19:06, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 09.08.22 12:56, Joao Martins wrote: >> On 7/21/22 13:07, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>> This is a follow-up on "util: NUMA aware memory preallocation" [1] by >>> Michal. >>> >>> Setting the CPU affinity of threads from inside QEMU usually isn't >>> easil

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] hostmem: NUMA-aware memory preallocation using ThreadContext

2022-08-09 Thread Michal Prívozník
On 8/9/22 20:06, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 09.08.22 12:56, Joao Martins wrote: >> On 7/21/22 13:07, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>> This is a follow-up on "util: NUMA aware memory preallocation" [1] by >>> Michal. >>> >>> Setting the CPU affinity of threads from inside QEMU usually isn't >>> easil

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] hostmem: NUMA-aware memory preallocation using ThreadContext

2022-08-09 Thread David Hildenbrand
On 09.08.22 12:56, Joao Martins wrote: > On 7/21/22 13:07, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> This is a follow-up on "util: NUMA aware memory preallocation" [1] by >> Michal. >> >> Setting the CPU affinity of threads from inside QEMU usually isn't >> easily possible, because we don't want QEMU -- once sta

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] hostmem: NUMA-aware memory preallocation using ThreadContext

2022-08-09 Thread Joao Martins
On 7/21/22 13:07, David Hildenbrand wrote: > This is a follow-up on "util: NUMA aware memory preallocation" [1] by > Michal. > > Setting the CPU affinity of threads from inside QEMU usually isn't > easily possible, because we don't want QEMU -- once started and running > guest code -- to be able t

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] hostmem: NUMA-aware memory preallocation using ThreadContext

2022-08-05 Thread David Hildenbrand
> > I've timed 'virsh start' with a guest that has 47GB worth of 1GB > hugepages and seen the startup time halved basically (from 10.5s to > 5.6s). The host has 4 NUMA nodes and I'm pinning the guest onto two nodes. > > I've written libvirt counterpart (which I'll post as soon as these are > merg

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] hostmem: NUMA-aware memory preallocation using ThreadContext

2022-08-05 Thread Michal Prívozník
On 7/21/22 14:07, David Hildenbrand wrote: > This is a follow-up on "util: NUMA aware memory preallocation" [1] by > Michal. > > Setting the CPU affinity of threads from inside QEMU usually isn't > easily possible, because we don't want QEMU -- once started and running > guest code -- to be able t

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] hostmem: NUMA-aware memory preallocation using ThreadContext

2022-07-25 Thread Michal Prívozník
On 7/21/22 14:07, David Hildenbrand wrote: > This is a follow-up on "util: NUMA aware memory preallocation" [1] by > Michal. I've skimmed through patches and haven't spotted anything obviously wrong. I'll test these more once I write libvirt support for them (which I plan to do soon). Michal

[PATCH RFC 0/7] hostmem: NUMA-aware memory preallocation using ThreadContext

2022-07-21 Thread David Hildenbrand
This is a follow-up on "util: NUMA aware memory preallocation" [1] by Michal. Setting the CPU affinity of threads from inside QEMU usually isn't easily possible, because we don't want QEMU -- once started and running guest code -- to be able to mess up the system. QEMU disallows relevant syscalls