Bug 1093840 - [Tracking] Host capability checks
Summary: [Tracking] Host capability checks
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openstack-nova
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: RHOS Maint
QA Contact: yeylon@redhat.com
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Depends On: libvirt-api-hw_io_virt
Blocks: rhelosp_hpc_scheduling
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Reported: 2014-05-02 19:21 UTC by Stephen Gordon
Modified: 2019-09-09 14:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-01-28 20:38:43 UTC
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Description Stephen Gordon 2014-05-02 19:21:21 UTC
Description of problem:

NFV workloads require that all compute nodes have support for second-level address translation services for large pages (Intel's® Extended Page Tables or AMD's® Rapid Virtualisation Indexing) and hardware support for I/O virtualization (IOMMU/AMD-Vi).

These capabilities are common in most modern hardware but may not always be enabled in the BIOS. This functionality must be confirmed at least during deployment if not periodically.

Comment 1 Stephen Gordon 2014-05-02 19:22:18 UTC
EPT/NPT can be exposed today, depending on on host nova/libvirt configuration, and could theoretically be filtered using the capabilities filter. IOMMU is more problematic.


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