Hello List, how can I achieve the best performance with vcpu pinning in KVM?
Is it better to have 1:1 mapping between virtual and physical thread like this: <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='1'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='2'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='3'/> <vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='4'/> <vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='5'/> <vcpupin vcpu='6' cpuset='6'/> <vcpupin vcpu='7' cpuset='7'/> Or is it better to allow each vCPU to run on any of the limited number of physical threads? e.g. <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7'/> <vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7'/> <vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7'/> <vcpupin vcpu='6' cpuset='0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7'/> <vcpupin vcpu='7' cpuset='0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7'/> The hypervisor host has 2 CPUs. Each CPU has 8 cores and each core 2 Threads. In total this are 32 threads. lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 32 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-31 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 8 Socket(s): 2 NUMA node(s): 2 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 85 Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6244 CPU @ 3.60GHz Stepping: 7 CPU MHz: 4213.731 CPU max MHz: 4400.0000 CPU min MHz: 1200.0000 BogoMIPS: 7200.00 Virtualization: VT-x L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 1024K L3 cache: 25344K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7,16-23 NUMA node1 CPU(s): 8-15,24-31 I need to run 2 VMs on this host. One is for production and should have 24 vCPUs and the other one is for test and should have 8 vCPUs. Test VM workload should not impact Prod VM performance. Current configuration is: TEST: <vcpu placement='static' current='8'>128</vcpu> <iothreads>1</iothreads> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='1'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='2'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='3'/> <vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='4'/> <vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='5'/> <vcpupin vcpu='6' cpuset='6'/> <vcpupin vcpu='7' cpuset='7'/> </cputune> <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'> <topology sockets='16' cores='4' threads='2'/> <numa> <cell id='0' cpus='0-7' memory='134217728' unit='KiB'/> </numa> </cpu> PROD: <vcpu placement='static' current='24'>192</vcpu> <iothreads>1</iothreads> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='8'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='9'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='10'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='11'/> <vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='12'/> <vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='13'/> <vcpupin vcpu='6' cpuset='14'/> <vcpupin vcpu='7' cpuset='15'/> <vcpupin vcpu='8' cpuset='16'/> <vcpupin vcpu='9' cpuset='17'/> <vcpupin vcpu='10' cpuset='18'/> <vcpupin vcpu='11' cpuset='19'/> <vcpupin vcpu='12' cpuset='20'/> <vcpupin vcpu='13' cpuset='21'/> <vcpupin vcpu='14' cpuset='22'/> <vcpupin vcpu='15' cpuset='23'/> <vcpupin vcpu='16' cpuset='24'/> <vcpupin vcpu='17' cpuset='25'/> <vcpupin vcpu='18' cpuset='26'/> <vcpupin vcpu='19' cpuset='27'/> <vcpupin vcpu='20' cpuset='28'/> <vcpupin vcpu='21' cpuset='29'/> <vcpupin vcpu='22' cpuset='30'/> <vcpupin vcpu='23' cpuset='31'/> </cputune> <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'> <topology sockets='16' cores='6' threads='2'/> <numa> <cell id='0' cpus='0-23' memory='889192448' unit='KiB'/> </numa> </cpu> Versions are: ovirt-host-4.3.5 libvirt-5.7.0-28.el7.x86_64 Thanks in advance, Martin _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/HCNWYSIBMUY7Q3YU25KQL2MUCK42GMJ6/