Description of problem: Instance creation is getting failed after setting hw:cpu_thread_policy as isolate Here is the output of openstack flavor show: ~~~ +----------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Field | Value | +----------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | OS-FLV-DISABLED:disabled | False | | OS-FLV-EXT-DATA:ephemeral | 0 | | access_project_ids | None | | description | None | | disk | 30 | | extra_specs | {'hw:cpu_policy': 'dedicated', 'hw:cpu_thread_policy': 'isolate', 'hw:mem_page_size': 'large'} | | id | 296b5673-7f3d-4cf7-94fc-2013321b5641 | | name | test-sriov-isolates-thread | | os-flavor-access:is_public | True | | properties | hw:cpu_policy='dedicated', hw:cpu_thread_policy='isolate', hw:mem_page_size='large' | | ram | 16384 | | rxtx_factor | 1.0 | | swap | 0 | | vcpus | 8 | +----------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ~~~ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): installed-rpms |grep nova puppet-nova-15.5.1-0.20200608173427.c15e37c.el8ost.noarch Tue Aug 4 14:04:37 2020 python3-novaclient-15.1.0-0.20200310162625.cd396b8.el8ost.noarch Tue Aug 4 14:05:55 2020 How reproducible: spawn the instance with same flavor on 16 and it went into error state Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Instance went into error state Expected results: Instance should spawn successfully Additional info: It was working in osp13