Huge Pages per guest NUMA nodes

Registered by Sahid Orentino

The current huge Pages implementation build on top of NUMA takes advantage of memory placement to specify an amount of memory used on each NUMA nodes of guest.

This blueprint aim to improve that placement to make possible configuring different pagesize per guest NUMA nodes.

NUMA topologu will be enhanced with new attribute hw:numa_pagesize.N with N as an identify of guest NUMA node.

  hw:numa_pagesize.0 = large
  hw:numa_pagesize.1 = any

For a topology with several NUMA nodes it will be possible to set only page size of the desired node. Nodes without a specific page size will be considered to use default and smallest page size.

  hw:numa_nodes=2
  hw:numa_pagesize.1=large

This example means that a guest will be configured with topology of 2 NUMA nodes and node identified 1 will have memory page size backed to large.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
John Garbutt
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
Sahid Orentino
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Sahid Orentino
Definition:
Obsolete
Series goal:
Proposed for trunk
Implementation:
Unknown
Milestone target:
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Completed by
Sahid Orentino

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