Hi Gianluca,

Thanks for investigating it. This is definitely a bug, please file an issue
in GitHub for that.

Lucia

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 10:30 PM Gianluca Amato <gianluca.amato...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Lucia,
> thanks for you suggestion. I made several experiments with and without
> hugepages. It seems that, when oVirt calculates the amount of available
> memory on the NUMA nodes, it does not keep into consideration the reserved
> hugepages. For example, this is the result of "numactl --hardware" on my
> host in this moment:
>
> ----------------
> node 0 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42
> 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62 64 66 68 70 72 74 76 78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92
> 94 96 98 100 102 104 106 108 110
> node 0 size: 257333 MB
> node 0 free: 106431 MB
> node 1 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43
> 45 47 49 51 53 55 57 59 61 63 65 67 69 71 73 75 77 79 81 83 85 87 89 91 93
> 95 97 99 101 103 105 107 109 111
> node 1 size: 257993 MB
> node 1 free: 142009 MB
> node distances:
> node   0   1
>   0:  10  21
>   1:  21  10
> -------------------
>
> I am able to launch my VM only if I set its Memory Size to be 210 GB or
> less (i.e., the double of the available RAM in node 0, which is the node
> with less available RAM). I tried several times with different amount of
> free memory, and this behavior seems to be consistent. Note that, once
> started, the VM consumes the pre-allocated reserved hugepages, and has
> almost no impact on the free memory.
>
> Do you think there is a reason why oVirt behaves in this ways, or is this
> a bug that I could signal in the github repo ?
>
> Thanks a lot again,
> --gianluca
>
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