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Bug 1198497 - virsh numatune does not move the already allocated memory
Summary: virsh numatune does not move the already allocated memory
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libvirt
Version: 6.8
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Martin Kletzander
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-03-04 09:41 UTC by Martin Tessun
Modified: 2019-08-15 04:19 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libvirt-0.10.2-53.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
: 1640869 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-07-22 05:48:45 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2015:1252 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE libvirt bug fix update 2015-07-20 17:50:06 UTC

Description Martin Tessun 2015-03-04 09:41:41 UTC 
Description of problem:
virsh numatune doesn't migrate memory in a running VM

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a VM with strict pinning to NUMA Node 0
2. Change the NumaNode via "virsh numatune <VM> --nodeset 1

Actual results:
New memory gets allocated in the new numanode, but already allocated one stays in NumaNode 0


Expected results:
As the allocation policy is strict, all memory shoudl be moved to NumaNode 1


Additional info:
This happens as the cgroup has cpuset.memory_migrate set to 0
In case this is set to 1 manually the memory gets migrated.

As typically the Numanode and the CPUset are "pinned" to the same NumaNode, having memory in another node slows down the VM in case this memory is accessed.
Comment 2 Martin Kletzander 2015-03-09 08:03:56 UTC 
I remember raising the memory_migrate question upstream, let me find the discussion (if I remember correctly that there was any).  In the meantime, setting it manually to 1 is a valid workaround that will not break libvirt.
Comment 3 Martin Kletzander 2015-03-11 12:50:32 UTC 
The discussion mentioned in comment #2 was private and mostly irrelevant, so I just composed a patch and sent it upstream:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-March/msg00586.html
Comment 4 Martin Kletzander 2015-03-20 12:45:24 UTC 
Fixed upstream with v1.2.13-250-gba1dfc5..v1.2.13-251-g3a0e5b0: 

commit ba1dfc5b6a65914ec8ceadbcfbe16c17e83cc760
Author: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan>
Date:   Wed Mar 11 11:15:29 2015 +0100

    cgroup: Add accessors for cpuset.memory_migrate
    
commit 3a0e5b0c20815f986ac434e3df67f56d5d1aa44c
Author: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan>
Date:   Wed Mar 11 11:17:15 2015 +0100

    qemu: Migrate memory on numatune change
Comment 8 Martin Kletzander 2015-04-07 09:30:07 UTC 
Moving to POST:

http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhvirt-patches/2015-April/msg00088.html
Comment 10 Jiri Denemark 2015-04-10 11:38:32 UTC 
The backport introduces a memory leak.
Comment 11 Jiri Denemark 2015-04-10 12:11:03 UTC 
Fix for the leak: http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhvirt-patches/2015-April/msg00233.html
Comment 13 Luyao Huang 2015-04-13 08:47:37 UTC 
I can reproduce this issue with libvirt-0.10.2-51.el6.x86_64:

1. start a vm guest mem bind to host with strict mode:
# virsh dumpxml r6
...
  <memory unit='KiB'>40240000</memory>
  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>30240000</currentMemory>
  <vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu>
  <numatune>
    <memory mode='strict' nodeset='0'/>
  </numatune>
...

2. start this vm

# virsh start r6
Domain r6 started

3. check cgroup and numa mem

# numastat -p `pidof qemu-kvm`

Per-node process memory usage (in MBs) for PID 31656 (qemu-kvm)
                           Node 0          Node 1           Total
                  --------------- --------------- ---------------
Huge                         0.00            0.00            0.00
Heap                       196.49            0.00          196.49
Stack                        0.04            0.00            0.04
Private                  30486.73            5.62        30492.35
----------------  --------------- --------------- ---------------
Total                    30683.27            5.62        30688.88

# cgget -g cpuset /libvirt/qemu/r6
/libvirt/qemu/r6:
cpuset.memory_spread_slab: 0
cpuset.memory_spread_page: 0
cpuset.memory_pressure: 0
cpuset.memory_migrate: 0
cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level: -1
cpuset.sched_load_balance: 1
cpuset.mem_hardwall: 0
cpuset.mem_exclusive: 0
cpuset.cpu_exclusive: 0
cpuset.mems: 0
cpuset.cpus: 0-31

4. change the memory bind node

# virsh numatune r6 0 1

5.recheck cgroup and numa:
# numastat -p `pidof qemu-kvm`

Per-node process memory usage (in MBs) for PID 31656 (qemu-kvm)
                           Node 0          Node 1           Total
                  --------------- --------------- ---------------
Huge                         0.00            0.00            0.00
Heap                       196.49            0.00          196.49
Stack                        0.04            0.00            0.04
Private                  30494.73            5.62        30500.35
----------------  --------------- --------------- ---------------
Total                    30691.27            5.62        30696.88

# cgget -g cpuset /libvirt/qemu/r6
/libvirt/qemu/r6:
cpuset.memory_spread_slab: 0
cpuset.memory_spread_page: 0
cpuset.memory_pressure: 0
cpuset.memory_migrate: 0
cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level: -1
cpuset.sched_load_balance: 1
cpuset.mem_hardwall: 0
cpuset.mem_exclusive: 0
cpuset.cpu_exclusive: 0
cpuset.mems: 1
cpuset.cpus: 0-31



And verify this bug with libvirt-0.10.2-53.el6.x86_64:

1. prepare a vm mem bind to host with strict:
# virsh dumpxml r6
...
  <memory unit='KiB'>40240000</memory>
  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>30240000</currentMemory>
  <vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu>
  <numatune>
    <memory mode='strict' nodeset='0'/>
  </numatune>
...

2. start this vm

# virsh start r6
Domain r6 started

3.check cgroup and numa mem:
# cgget -g cpuset /libvirt/qemu/r6
/libvirt/qemu/r6:
cpuset.memory_spread_slab: 0
cpuset.memory_spread_page: 0
cpuset.memory_pressure: 0
cpuset.memory_migrate: 1
cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level: -1
cpuset.sched_load_balance: 1
cpuset.mem_hardwall: 0
cpuset.mem_exclusive: 0
cpuset.cpu_exclusive: 0
cpuset.mems: 0
cpuset.cpus: 0-31

# numastat -p `pidof qemu-kvm`

Per-node process memory usage (in MBs) for PID 15103 (qemu-kvm)
                           Node 0          Node 1           Total
                  --------------- --------------- ---------------
Huge                         0.00            0.00            0.00
Heap                       196.49            0.00          196.49
Stack                        0.04            0.00            0.04
Private                     48.64            5.31           53.95
----------------  --------------- --------------- ---------------
Total                      245.17            5.31          250.48

4. run a memeater in guest and recheck memory

# numastat -p `pidof qemu-kvm`

Per-node process memory usage (in MBs) for PID 15103 (qemu-kvm)
                           Node 0          Node 1           Total
                  --------------- --------------- ---------------
Huge                         0.00            0.00            0.00
Heap                       196.49            0.00          196.49
Stack                        0.04            0.00            0.04
Private                  29629.27            5.32        29634.59
----------------  --------------- --------------- ---------------
Total                    29825.80            5.32        29831.12

5. migrate memory via virsh numatune:

# time virsh numatune r6 0 1


real	0m38.960s
user	0m0.030s
sys	0m0.034s

6. recheck cgroup and numa memory

# cgget -g cpuset /libvirt/qemu/r6
/libvirt/qemu/r6:
cpuset.memory_spread_slab: 0
cpuset.memory_spread_page: 0
cpuset.memory_pressure: 0
cpuset.memory_migrate: 1
cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level: -1
cpuset.sched_load_balance: 1
cpuset.mem_hardwall: 0
cpuset.mem_exclusive: 0
cpuset.cpu_exclusive: 0
cpuset.mems: 1
cpuset.cpus: 0-31

# numastat -p `pidof qemu-kvm`

Per-node process memory usage (in MBs) for PID 15103 (qemu-kvm)
                           Node 0          Node 1           Total
                  --------------- --------------- ---------------
Huge                         0.00            0.00            0.00
Heap                         0.00          196.49          196.49
Stack                        0.00            0.04            0.04
Private                      0.04        29638.54        29638.58
----------------  --------------- --------------- ---------------
Total                        0.04        29835.07        29835.11


7. also test with numad with placement='auto', it work's well
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 05:48:45 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-1252.html
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