Fix host CPU counting on unusual NUMA topologies

The nodeinfo structure includes

    nodes   : the number of NUMA cell, 1 for uniform mem access
    sockets : number of CPU socket per node
    cores   : number of core per socket
    threads : number of threads per core

which does not work well for NUMA topologies where each node does not
consist of integral number of CPU sockets.

We also have VIR_NODEINFO_MAXCPUS macro in public libvirt.h which
computes maximum number of CPUs as (nodes * sockets * cores * threads).

As a result, we can't just change sockets to report total number of
sockets instead of sockets per node. This would probably be the easiest
since I doubt anyone is using the field directly. But because of the
macro, some apps might be using sockets indirectly.

This patch leaves sockets to be the number of CPU sockets per node (and
fixes qemu driver to comply with this) on machines where sockets can be
divided by nodes. If we can't divide sockets by nodes, we behave as if
there was just one NUMA node containing all sockets. Apps interested in
NUMA should consult capabilities XML, which is what they probably do
anyway.

This way, the only case in which apps that care about NUMA may break is
on machines with funky NUMA topology. And there is a chance libvirt
wasn't able to start any guests on those machines anyway (although it
depends on the topology, total number of CPUs and kernel version).
Nothing changes at all for apps that don't care about NUMA.

diff --git a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
index 716f7af99b0586b69e0e59ed5bb45069a6d5db36..3c6a54ac36e81608300df2850be88793edc53778 100644 (file)
--- a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
+++ b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
@@ -219,9 +219,12 @@ struct _virNodeInfo {
     unsigned long memory;/* memory size in kilobytes */
     unsigned int cpus;  /* the number of active CPUs */
     unsigned int mhz;   /* expected CPU frequency */
-    unsigned int nodes; /* the number of NUMA cell, 1 for uniform mem access */
-    unsigned int sockets;/* number of CPU socket per node */
-    unsigned int cores; /* number of core per socket */
+    unsigned int nodes; /* the number of NUMA cell, 1 for unusual NUMA
+                           topologies or uniform memory access; check
+                           capabilities XML for the actual NUMA topology */
+    unsigned int sockets;/* number of CPU sockets per node if nodes > 1,
+                            total number of CPU sockets otherwise */
+    unsigned int cores; /* number of cores per socket */
     unsigned int threads;/* number of threads per core */
 };
 

diff --git a/src/nodeinfo.c b/src/nodeinfo.c
index 9be2a02f55d0c2dc14591d0b11506ecfd33e7ac1..acd3188472ab5cda6209987b85e8ee76f84035b4 100644 (file)
--- a/src/nodeinfo.c
+++ b/src/nodeinfo.c
@@ -305,6 +305,16 @@ int linuxNodeInfoCPUPopulate(FILE *cpuinfo,
         return -1;
     }
 
+    /* nodeinfo->sockets is supposed to be a number of sockets per NUMA node,
+     * however if NUMA nodes are not composed of whole sockets, we just lie
+     * about the number of NUMA nodes and force apps to check capabilities XML
+     * for the actual NUMA topology.
+     */
+    if (nodeinfo->sockets % nodeinfo->nodes == 0)
+        nodeinfo->sockets /= nodeinfo->nodes;
+    else
+        nodeinfo->nodes = 1;
+
     return 0;
 }
 

diff --git a/src/xen/xend_internal.c b/src/xen/xend_internal.c
index 44501950ac6349837ac4e514b2d1062347d97b99..6ce0c3fe7db84274c2019785fa7fa45a6adb4f58 100644 (file)
--- a/src/xen/xend_internal.c
+++ b/src/xen/xend_internal.c
@@ -2497,12 +2497,21 @@ sexpr_to_xend_node_info(const struct sexpr *root, virNodeInfoPtr info)
         if (procs == 0) /* Sanity check in case of Xen bugs in futures..*/
             return (-1);
         info->sockets = nr_cpus / procs;
-        /* Should already be fine, but for further sanity make
-         * sure we have at least one socket
-         */
-        if (info->sockets == 0)
-            info->sockets = 1;
     }
+
+    /* On systems where NUMA nodes are not composed of whole sockets either Xen
+     * provided us wrong number of sockets per node or we computed the wrong
+     * number in the compatibility code above. In such case, we compute the
+     * correct number of sockets on the host, lie about the number of NUMA
+     * nodes, and force apps to check capabilities XML for the actual NUMA
+     * topology.
+     */
+    if (info->nodes * info->sockets * info->cores * info->threads
+        != info->cpus) {
+        info->nodes = 1;
+        info->sockets = info->cpus / (info->cores * info->threads);
+    }
+
     return (0);
 }