[Starlingx-discuss] Support single huge page size for openstack worker node

Liu, Tao Tao.Liu at windriver.com
Wed Aug 28 16:50:59 UTC 2019


Hi All,

The change that removes  auto-provision of huge pages has been merged into the master branch.

A new provisioning step is required prior to unlocking an AIO controller or a  worker node, if vswitch_type is set to OVS-DPDK.

Configure vSwitch memory per NUMA node:
system host-memory-modify -f <function>  -1G <1G hugepages number> <hostname or id> <processor>
i.e. system host-memory-modify -f vswitch -1G 1  compute-0 0

If you plan to create VMs using the huge pages, you would need to configure VM huge pages as well.

Please make any necessary documentation changes.


Regards,
Tao

From: Liu, Tao
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2019 8:39 PM
To: 'starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io'
Subject: Re: Pending: Support single huge page size for openstack worker node

Hi All,

The changes to support  single huge page size have been merged into master.

In this first update, the auto-provision of VM huge pages has been changed from 2M to 1G.

A subsequent update,  will remove the auto-provisioning of huge pages for both VM and vSwitch.
If any test case is dependent on the default VM huge pages,  a new step will be required to allocate huge pages for VM on a openstack worker node.
Prior to unlocking a worker node , user provisioning of the vSwitch memory would be required,  if vswitch_type is set to OVS-DPDK.

Regards,
Tao

From: Liu, Tao
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2019 1:06 PM
To: starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
Subject: Pending: Support single huge page size for openstack worker node

Hi All,

Per story 2006295<https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2006295>, we are in the process of supporting single huge page size for openstack worker node.  This means we will enforce the provisioning of a single huge page size
per worker, which aligns with the non-openstack worker behavior.   The automated test cases that attempt to allocate both 2M and 1G huge pages on a worker node should be updated.

The code changes are available here:
https://review.opendev.org/#/c/676710/


Regards,

Tao Liu, Member of Technical Staff, Engineering,, Wind River
direct 613.963.1413 fax: 613.492.7870 skype: tao_at_home
350 Terry Fox Drive, Suite 200, Ottawa, Ontario, K2K 2W5

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