Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 08/14] xen: derive NUMA node affinity from hard and soft CPU affinity

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/18/2013 06:17 PM, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> if a domain's NUMA node-affinity (which is what controls
> memory allocations) is provided by the user/toolstack, it
> just is not touched. However, if the user does not say
> anything, leaving it all to Xen, let's compute it in the
> following way:
>
>   1. cpupool's cpus & hard-affinity & soft-affinity
>   2. if (1) is empty: cpupool's cpus & hard-affinity
>
> This guarantees memory to be allocated from the narrowest
> possible set of NUMA nodes, ad makes it relatively easy to
> set up NUMA-aware scheduling on top of soft affinity.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Changes from v2:
>   * the loop computing the mask is now only executed when
>     it really is useful, as suggested during review;
>   * the loop, and all the cpumask handling is optimized,
>     in a way similar to what was suggested during review.
> ---
>   xen/common/domain.c |   62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>   1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/xen/common/domain.c b/xen/common/domain.c
> index d6ac4d1..721678a 100644
> --- a/xen/common/domain.c
> +++ b/xen/common/domain.c
> @@ -353,17 +353,17 @@ struct domain *domain_create(
>
>   void domain_update_node_affinity(struct domain *d)
>   {
> -    cpumask_var_t cpumask;
> -    cpumask_var_t online_affinity;
> +    cpumask_var_t dom_cpumask, dom_cpumask_soft;
> +    cpumask_t *dom_affinity;
>       const cpumask_t *online;
>       struct vcpu *v;
> -    unsigned int node;
> +    unsigned int cpu;
>
> -    if ( !zalloc_cpumask_var(&cpumask) )
> +    if ( !zalloc_cpumask_var(&dom_cpumask) )
>           return;
> -    if ( !alloc_cpumask_var(&online_affinity) )
> +    if ( !zalloc_cpumask_var(&dom_cpumask_soft) )
>       {
> -        free_cpumask_var(cpumask);
> +        free_cpumask_var(dom_cpumask);
>           return;
>       }
>
> @@ -371,31 +371,49 @@ void domain_update_node_affinity(struct domain *d)
>
>       spin_lock(&d->node_affinity_lock);
>
> -    for_each_vcpu ( d, v )
> -    {
> -        cpumask_and(online_affinity, v->cpu_hard_affinity, online);
> -        cpumask_or(cpumask, cpumask, online_affinity);
> -    }
> -
>       /*
> -     * If d->auto_node_affinity is true, the domain's node-affinity mask
> -     * (d->node_affinity) is automaically computed from all the domain's
> -     * vcpus' vcpu-affinity masks (the union of which we have just built
> -     * above in cpumask). OTOH, if d->auto_node_affinity is false, we
> -     * must leave the node-affinity of the domain alone.
> +     * If d->auto_node_affinity is true, let's compute the domain's
> +     * node-affinity and update d->node_affinity accordingly. if false,
> +     * just leave d->auto_node_affinity alone.
>        */
>       if ( d->auto_node_affinity )
>       {
> +        /*
> +         * We want the narrowest possible set of pcpus (to get the narowest
> +         * possible set of nodes). What we need is the cpumask of where the
> +         * domain can run (the union of the hard affinity of all its vcpus),
> +         * and the full mask of where it would prefer to run (the union of
> +         * the soft affinity of all its various vcpus). Let's build them.
> +         */
> +        cpumask_clear(dom_cpumask);
> +        cpumask_clear(dom_cpumask_soft);
> +        for_each_vcpu ( d, v )
> +        {
> +            cpumask_or(dom_cpumask, dom_cpumask, v->cpu_hard_affinity);
> +            cpumask_or(dom_cpumask_soft, dom_cpumask_soft,
> +                       v->cpu_soft_affinity);
> +        }
> +        /* Filter out non-online cpus */
> +        cpumask_and(dom_cpumask, dom_cpumask, online);
> +        /* And compute the intersection between hard, online and soft */
> +        cpumask_and(dom_cpumask_soft, dom_cpumask_soft, dom_cpumask);
> +
> +        /*
> +         * If not empty, the intersection of hard, soft and online is the
> +         * narrowest set we want. If empty, we fall back to hard&online.
> +         */
> +        dom_affinity = cpumask_empty(dom_cpumask_soft) ?
> +                           dom_cpumask : dom_cpumask_soft;
> +
>           nodes_clear(d->node_affinity);
> -        for_each_online_node ( node )
> -            if ( cpumask_intersects(&node_to_cpumask(node), cpumask) )
> -                node_set(node, d->node_affinity);
> +        for_each_cpu( cpu, dom_affinity )
> +            node_set(cpu_to_node(cpu), d->node_affinity);
>       }
>
>       spin_unlock(&d->node_affinity_lock);
>
> -    free_cpumask_var(online_affinity);
> -    free_cpumask_var(cpumask);
> +    free_cpumask_var(dom_cpumask_soft);
> +    free_cpumask_var(dom_cpumask);
>   }

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