[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Rework setting process affinity

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Wed Jan 30 13:56:46 UTC 2019


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1503284

The way we currently start qemu from CPU affinity POV is as
follows:

1) the child process is set affinity to all online CPUs (unless
some vcpu pinning was given in the domain XML)

2) Once qemu is running, cpuset cgroup is configured taking
memory pinning into account

Problem is that we let qemu allocate its memory just anywhere in
1) and then rely in 2) to be able to move the memory to
configured NUMA nodes. This might not be always possible (e.g.
qemu might lock some parts of its memory) and is very suboptimal
(copying large memory between NUMA nodes takes significant amount
of time). The solution is to set the affinity correctly from the
beginning and then possibly refine it later via cgroups.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---
 src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 152 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
index 9ccc3601a2..a4668f6773 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
@@ -2435,6 +2435,44 @@ qemuProcessDetectIOThreadPIDs(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
 }
 
 
+static int
+qemuProcessGetAllCpuAffinity(pid_t pid,
+                             virBitmapPtr *cpumapRet)
+{
+    VIR_AUTOPTR(virBitmap) cpumap = NULL;
+    VIR_AUTOPTR(virBitmap) hostcpumap = NULL;
+    int hostcpus;
+
+    *cpumapRet = NULL;
+
+    if (!virHostCPUHasBitmap())
+        return 0;
+
+    if (!(hostcpumap = virHostCPUGetOnlineBitmap()) ||
+        !(cpumap = virProcessGetAffinity(pid)))
+        return -1;
+
+    if (!virBitmapEqual(hostcpumap, cpumap)) {
+        /* setaffinity fails if you set bits for CPUs which
+         * aren't present, so we have to limit ourselves */
+        if ((hostcpus = virHostCPUGetCount()) < 0)
+            return -1;
+
+        if (hostcpus > QEMUD_CPUMASK_LEN)
+            hostcpus = QEMUD_CPUMASK_LEN;
+
+        virBitmapFree(cpumap);
+        if (!(cpumap = virBitmapNew(hostcpus)))
+            return -1;
+
+        virBitmapSetAll(cpumap);
+    }
+
+    VIR_STEAL_PTR(*cpumapRet, cpumap);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+
 /*
  * To be run between fork/exec of QEMU only
  */
@@ -2443,9 +2481,9 @@ static int
 qemuProcessInitCpuAffinity(virDomainObjPtr vm)
 {
     int ret = -1;
-    virBitmapPtr cpumap = NULL;
     virBitmapPtr cpumapToSet = NULL;
-    virBitmapPtr hostcpumap = NULL;
+    VIR_AUTOPTR(virBitmap) hostcpumap = NULL;
+    virDomainNumatuneMemMode mem_mode;
     qemuDomainObjPrivatePtr priv = vm->privateData;
 
     if (!vm->pid) {
@@ -2454,59 +2492,36 @@ qemuProcessInitCpuAffinity(virDomainObjPtr vm)
         return -1;
     }
 
-    if (vm->def->placement_mode == VIR_DOMAIN_CPU_PLACEMENT_MODE_AUTO) {
-        VIR_DEBUG("Set CPU affinity with advisory nodeset from numad");
-        cpumapToSet = priv->autoCpuset;
+    /* Here is the deal, we can't set cpuset.mems before qemu is
+     * started as it clashes with KVM allocation. Therefore we
+     * used to let qemu allocate its memory anywhere as we would
+     * then move the memory to desired NUMA node via CGroups.
+     * However, that might not be always possible because qemu
+     * might lock some parts of its memory (e.g. due to VFIO).
+     * Solution is to set some temporary affinity now and then
+     * fix it later, once qemu is already running. */
+    if (virDomainNumaGetNodeCount(vm->def->numa) <= 1 &&
+        virDomainNumatuneGetMode(vm->def->numa, -1, &mem_mode) == 0 &&
+        mem_mode == VIR_DOMAIN_NUMATUNE_MEM_STRICT) {
+        if (virDomainNumatuneMaybeGetNodeset(vm->def->numa,
+                                             priv->autoNodeset,
+                                             &cpumapToSet,
+                                             -1) < 0)
+            goto cleanup;
+    } else if (vm->def->cputune.emulatorpin) {
+        cpumapToSet = vm->def->cputune.emulatorpin;
     } else {
-        VIR_DEBUG("Set CPU affinity with specified cpuset");
-        if (vm->def->cpumask) {
-            cpumapToSet = vm->def->cpumask;
-        } else {
-            /* You may think this is redundant, but we can't assume libvirtd
-             * itself is running on all pCPUs, so we need to explicitly set
-             * the spawned QEMU instance to all pCPUs if no map is given in
-             * its config file */
-            int hostcpus;
-
-            if (virHostCPUHasBitmap()) {
-                hostcpumap = virHostCPUGetOnlineBitmap();
-                cpumap = virProcessGetAffinity(vm->pid);
-            }
-
-            if (hostcpumap && cpumap && virBitmapEqual(hostcpumap, cpumap)) {
-                /* we're using all available CPUs, no reason to set
-                 * mask. If libvirtd is running without explicit
-                 * affinity, we can use hotplugged CPUs for this VM */
-                ret = 0;
-                goto cleanup;
-            } else {
-                /* setaffinity fails if you set bits for CPUs which
-                 * aren't present, so we have to limit ourselves */
-                if ((hostcpus = virHostCPUGetCount()) < 0)
-                    goto cleanup;
-
-                if (hostcpus > QEMUD_CPUMASK_LEN)
-                    hostcpus = QEMUD_CPUMASK_LEN;
-
-                virBitmapFree(cpumap);
-                if (!(cpumap = virBitmapNew(hostcpus)))
-                    goto cleanup;
-
-                virBitmapSetAll(cpumap);
-
-                cpumapToSet = cpumap;
-            }
-        }
+        if (qemuProcessGetAllCpuAffinity(vm->pid, &hostcpumap) < 0)
+            goto cleanup;
+        cpumapToSet = hostcpumap;
     }
 
-    if (virProcessSetAffinity(vm->pid, cpumapToSet) < 0)
+    if (cpumapToSet &&
+        virProcessSetAffinity(vm->pid, cpumapToSet) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
 
     ret = 0;
-
  cleanup:
-    virBitmapFree(cpumap);
-    virBitmapFree(hostcpumap);
     return ret;
 }
 #else /* !defined(HAVE_SCHED_GETAFFINITY) && !defined(HAVE_BSD_CPU_AFFINITY) */
@@ -2586,7 +2601,8 @@ qemuProcessSetupPid(virDomainObjPtr vm,
     qemuDomainObjPrivatePtr priv = vm->privateData;
     virDomainNumatuneMemMode mem_mode;
     virCgroupPtr cgroup = NULL;
-    virBitmapPtr use_cpumask;
+    virBitmapPtr use_cpumask = NULL;
+    VIR_AUTOPTR(virBitmap) hostcpumap = NULL;
     char *mem_mask = NULL;
     int ret = -1;
 
@@ -2598,12 +2614,21 @@ qemuProcessSetupPid(virDomainObjPtr vm,
     }
 
     /* Infer which cpumask shall be used. */
-    if (cpumask)
+    if (cpumask) {
         use_cpumask = cpumask;
-    else if (vm->def->placement_mode == VIR_DOMAIN_CPU_PLACEMENT_MODE_AUTO)
+    } else if (vm->def->placement_mode == VIR_DOMAIN_CPU_PLACEMENT_MODE_AUTO) {
         use_cpumask = priv->autoCpuset;
-    else
+    } else if (vm->def->cpumask) {
         use_cpumask = vm->def->cpumask;
+    } else if (virHostCPUHasBitmap()) {
+        /* You may think this is redundant, but we can't assume libvirtd
+         * itself is running on all pCPUs, so we need to explicitly set
+         * the spawned QEMU instance to all pCPUs if no map is given in
+         * its config file */
+        if (qemuProcessGetAllCpuAffinity(pid, &hostcpumap) < 0)
+            goto cleanup;
+        use_cpumask = hostcpumap;
+    }
 
     /*
      * If CPU cgroup controller is not initialized here, then we need
@@ -2628,13 +2653,7 @@ qemuProcessSetupPid(virDomainObjPtr vm,
                 qemuSetupCgroupCpusetCpus(cgroup, use_cpumask) < 0)
                 goto cleanup;
 
-            /*
-             * Don't setup cpuset.mems for the emulator, they need to
-             * be set up after initialization in order for kvm
-             * allocations to succeed.
-             */
-            if (nameval != VIR_CGROUP_THREAD_EMULATOR &&
-                mem_mask && virCgroupSetCpusetMems(cgroup, mem_mask) < 0)
+            if (mem_mask && virCgroupSetCpusetMems(cgroup, mem_mask) < 0)
                 goto cleanup;
 
         }
@@ -6634,12 +6653,7 @@ qemuProcessLaunch(virConnectPtr conn,
 
     /* This must be done after cgroup placement to avoid resetting CPU
      * affinity */
-    if (!vm->def->cputune.emulatorpin &&
-        qemuProcessInitCpuAffinity(vm) < 0)
-        goto cleanup;
-
-    VIR_DEBUG("Setting emulator tuning/settings");
-    if (qemuProcessSetupEmulator(vm) < 0)
+    if (qemuProcessInitCpuAffinity(vm) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
 
     VIR_DEBUG("Setting cgroup for external devices (if required)");
@@ -6708,10 +6722,6 @@ qemuProcessLaunch(virConnectPtr conn,
     if (qemuProcessUpdateAndVerifyCPU(driver, vm, asyncJob) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
 
-    VIR_DEBUG("Setting up post-init cgroup restrictions");
-    if (qemuSetupCpusetMems(vm) < 0)
-        goto cleanup;
-
     VIR_DEBUG("setting up hotpluggable cpus");
     if (qemuDomainHasHotpluggableStartupVcpus(vm->def)) {
         if (qemuDomainRefreshVcpuInfo(driver, vm, asyncJob, false) < 0)
@@ -6737,6 +6747,10 @@ qemuProcessLaunch(virConnectPtr conn,
     if (qemuProcessDetectIOThreadPIDs(driver, vm, asyncJob) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
 
+    VIR_DEBUG("Setting emulator tuning/settings");
+    if (qemuProcessSetupEmulator(vm) < 0)
+        goto cleanup;
+
     VIR_DEBUG("Setting global CPU cgroup (if required)");
     if (qemuSetupGlobalCpuCgroup(vm) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
-- 
2.19.2




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