[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] How does the numa flag affect memory allocation?
It is my understanding that, with numa=on, Xen will try to allocate memory for a para VM from the same node as the CPUs that the VM's procs are pinned to. Thats true for HVM guests, too. Thus, in a multi-node system, if we specify a pinning toa specific node's CPUs in a VM's config file, Xen will allocate the VM's initial memory from that same node at startup. Correct. My question is: does this location preference happen for all subsequent memory allocation? In other words, if I boot a VM configured with some initial memory and pinned to CPUs in node-X, change the pinning of the VM's procs to CPUs in node-Y, and then use "xm mem-set" to allocate more memory, does this new memory come from node-Y? AFAIK ballooing and NUMA are in the moment mutually exclusive. Currently I am working on NUMA PV guest support (multiple nodes within a guest). I posted preliminary patches for HVM guests in August. If you want to help, you are invited ;-) Regards, Andre. -- Andre Przywara AMD-Operating System Research Center (OSRC), Dresden, Germany Tel: +49 351 277-84917 ----to satisfy European Law for business letters: AMD Saxony Limited Liability Company & Co. KGSitz (Geschäftsanschrift): Wilschdorfer Landstr. 101, 01109 Dresden, Deutschland Registergericht Dresden: HRA 4896vertretungsberechtigter Komplementär: AMD Saxony LLC (Sitz Wilmington, Delaware, USA) Geschäftsführer der AMD Saxony LLC: Dr. Hans-R. Deppe, Thomas McCoy _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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