Re: [Qemu-ppc] [RFC] spapr: Fix default NUMA node allocation for threads

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 09/01/2015 01:15 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> At present, if guest numa nodes are requested, but the cpus in each node
> are not specified, spapr just uses the default behaviour or assigning each
> vcpu round-robin to nodes.
>
> If smp_threads != 1, that will assign adjacent threads in a core to
> different NUMA nodes.  As well as being just weird, that's a configuration
> that can't be represented in the device tree we give to the guest, which
> means the guest and qemu end up with different ideas of the NUMA topology.
>
> This patch implements mc->cpu_index_to_socket_id in the spapr code to
> make sure vcpus get assigned to nodes only at the socket granularity.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> ---
>   hw/ppc/spapr.c | 8 ++++++++
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> The default NUMA allocation is pretty broken for any normal system,
> but this at least fixes it for one more case.  This is already in my
> spapr-next tree, but if I can get a Reviewed-by or two, it will be
> ready for merge to mainline.
>
>
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> index bf0c64f..8c2b103 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> @@ -1820,6 +1820,13 @@ static void spapr_nmi(NMIState *n, int cpu_index, Error 
> **errp)
>       }
>   }
>
> +static unsigned spapr_cpu_index_to_socket_id(unsigned cpu_index)
> +{
> +    /* Allocate to NUMA nodes on a "socket" basis (not that concept of
> +     * socket means much for the paravirtualized PAPR platform) */
> +    return cpu_index / smp_threads / smp_cores;



This bothers me as "ibm,chip-id" is calculated different in 
spapr_populate_cpu_dt() and your schema gives different socket numbers for 
weird cases like -smp 16,sockets=3,cores=4,threads=2


In general, I do not really understand why there is "sockets" parameter in 
QEMU at all...






> +}
> +
>   static void spapr_machine_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
>   {
>       MachineClass *mc = MACHINE_CLASS(oc);
> @@ -1836,6 +1843,7 @@ static void spapr_machine_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, 
> void *data)
>       mc->kvm_type = spapr_kvm_type;
>       mc->has_dynamic_sysbus = true;
>       mc->pci_allow_0_address = true;
> +    mc->cpu_index_to_socket_id = spapr_cpu_index_to_socket_id;
>
>       fwc->get_dev_path = spapr_get_fw_dev_path;
>       nc->nmi_monitor_handler = spapr_nmi;


--
Alexey