Friday, July 31, 2015

CPU Pinning and NUMA Topology on RDO Kilo on Fedora Server 22

Posting bellow follows up http://redhatstackblog.redhat.com/2015/05/05/cpu-pinning-and-numa-topology-awareness-in-openstack-compute/
on RDO Kilo installed on Fedora 22 . After upgrade to upstream version
of openstack-puppet-modules-2015.1.9 procedure of RDO Kilo install on F22
significantly changed. Details follow bellow :-

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RDO Kilo set up on Fedora ( openstack-puppet-modules-2015.1.9-4.fc23.noarch)
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# dnf install -y https://rdoproject.org/repos/rdo-release.rpm
# dnf install -y openstack-packstack

Generate answer-file and make update :-
# packstack  --gen-answer-file answer-file-aio.txt
   and set CONFIG_KEYSTONE_SERVICE_NAME=httpd

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I also commented out second line in  /etc/httpd/conf.d/mod_dnssd.conf
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As pre-install step apply patch https://review.openstack.org/#/c/209032/
to fix neutron_api.pp. Location of puppet templates
 /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packstack/puppet/templates.

Another option rebuild  openstack-packstack-2015.1-0.10.dev1608.g6447ff7.fc23.src.rpm on Fedora 22
with patch 0002-Avoid-running-neutron-db-manage-twice 
Place patch in SOURCES and update correspondingly spec file.

$ rpmbuild -bb openstack-packstack.spec
$ cd ../RPMS/noarch
$ dnf install openstack-packstack-2015.1-0.10.dev1608.g6447ff7.fc22.noarch.rpm
openstack-packstack-doc-2015.1-0.10.dev1608.g6447ff7.fc22.noarch.rpm
openstack-packstack-puppet-2015.1-0.10.dev1608.g6447ff7.fc22.noarch.rpm

You might be also hit by  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234042
Workaround is in comments 6,11
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Then run :-
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# packstack  --answer-file=./answer-file-aio.txt

If swift puppet generate error :-

192.168.1.57_swift.pp:                            [ ERROR ]              
Applying Puppet manifests                         [ ERROR ]

ERROR : Error appeared during Puppet run: 192.168.1.57_swift.pp
Error: Could not get latest version: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass


Then run :  `dnf check-update`  and replace obsoleted packages.
For instance :-

[root@fedora22wks ~]# yum check-update
Yum command has been deprecated, redirecting to '/usr/bin/dnf check-update'.
See 'man dnf' and 'man yum2dnf' for more information.
To transfer transaction metadata from yum to DNF, run:
'dnf install python-dnf-plugins-extras-migrate && dnf-2 migrate'

Last metadata expiration check performed 0:21:19 ago on Fri Aug  7 12:25:41 2015.
Obsoleting Packages
python-mysql.x86_64                      1.3.6-4.fc22                              updates      
    MySQL-python.x86_64                  1.3.6-3.fc22                              @System    
  
[root@fedora22wks ~]# yum install python-mysql
Yum command has been deprecated, redirecting to '/usr/bin/dnf install python-mysql'.
See 'man dnf' and 'man yum2dnf' for more information.
To transfer transaction metadata from yum to DNF, run:
'dnf install python-dnf-plugins-extras-migrate && dnf-2 migrate'

Last metadata expiration check performed 0:21:47 ago on Fri Aug  7 12:25:41 2015.
Dependencies resolved.
=================================================================================================
 Package                  Arch               Version                   Repository           Size
=================================================================================================
Installing:
 python-mysql             x86_64             1.3.6-4.fc22              updates              98 k
     replacing  MySQL-python.x86_64 1.3.6-3.fc22

Transaction Summary
=================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 98 k
Installed size: 265 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
python-mysql-1.3.6-4.fc22.x86_64.rpm                              62 kB/s |  98 kB     00:01   
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                             35 kB/s |  98 kB     00:02    
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Installing  : python-mysql-1.3.6-4.fc22.x86_64                                             1/2
  Obsoleting  : MySQL-python-1.3.6-3.fc22.x86_64                                             2/2
  Verifying   : python-mysql-1.3.6-4.fc22.x86_64                                             1/2
  Verifying   : MySQL-python-1.3.6-3.fc22.x86_64                                             2/2

Installed:
  python-mysql.x86_64 1.3.6-4.fc22                                                              

Complete!
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Rerun packstack.
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Final target is to reproduce mentioned article on i7 4790 Haswell CPU box, perform launching nova instance with CPU pinning.

 [root@fedora22server ~(keystone_admin)]# uname -a
Linux fedora22server.localdomain 4.1.3-200.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 22 19:51:58 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_admin)]# rpm -qa \*qemu\*
qemu-system-x86-2.3.0-6.fc22.x86_64
qemu-img-2.3.0-6.fc22.x86_64
qemu-guest-agent-2.3.0-6.fc22.x86_64
qemu-kvm-2.3.0-6.fc22.x86_64
ipxe-roms-qemu-20150407-1.gitdc795b9f.fc22.noarch
qemu-common-2.3.0-6.fc22.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.13.1-2.fc22.x86_64


[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_admin)]# numactl --hardware
available: 1 nodes (0)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
node 0 size: 15991 MB
node 0 free: 4399 MB
node distances:
node   0
  0:  10

[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_admin)]# virsh capabilities
<capabilities>
<host>
    <uuid>00fd5d2c-dad7-dd11-ad7e-7824af431b53</uuid>
    <cpu>
      <arch>x86_64</arch>
      <model>Haswell-noTSX</model>
      <vendor>Intel</vendor>
      <topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='2'/>
      <feature name='invtsc'/>
      <feature name='abm'/>
      <feature name='pdpe1gb'/>
      <feature name='rdrand'/>
      <feature name='f16c'/>
      <feature name='osxsave'/>
      <feature name='pdcm'/>
      <feature name='xtpr'/>
      <feature name='tm2'/>
      <feature name='est'/>
      <feature name='smx'/>
      <feature name='vmx'/>
      <feature name='ds_cpl'/>
      <feature name='monitor'/>
      <feature name='dtes64'/>
      <feature name='pbe'/>
      <feature name='tm'/>
      <feature name='ht'/>
      <feature name='ss'/>
      <feature name='acpi'/>
      <feature name='ds'/>
      <feature name='vme'/>
      <pages unit='KiB' size='4'/>
      <pages unit='KiB' size='2048'/>
    </cpu>
    <power_management>
      <suspend_mem/>
      <suspend_disk/>
      <suspend_hybrid/>
    </power_management>
    <migration_features>
      <live/>
      <uri_transports>
        <uri_transport>tcp</uri_transport>
        <uri_transport>rdma</uri_transport>
      </uri_transports>
    </migration_features>
    <topology>
      <cells num='1'>
        <cell id='0'>
          <memory unit='KiB'>16374824</memory>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='4'>4093706</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='2048'>0</pages>
          <distances>
            <sibling id='0' value='10'/>
          </distances>
          <cpus num='8'>
            <cpu id='0' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0,4'/>
            <cpu id='1' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='1,5'/>
            <cpu id='2' socket_id='0' core_id='2' siblings='2,6'/>
            <cpu id='3' socket_id='0' core_id='3' siblings='3,7'/>
            <cpu id='4' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0,4'/>
            <cpu id='5' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='1,5'/>
            <cpu id='6' socket_id='0' core_id='2' siblings='2,6'/>
            <cpu id='7' socket_id='0' core_id='3' siblings='3,7'/>
          </cpus>
        </cell>
      </cells>
    </topology>

On each Compute node that pinning of virtual machines will be permitted on open the /etc/nova/nova.conf file and make the following modifications:
  • Set the vcpu_pin_set value to a list or range of logical CPU cores  to reserve for virtual machine processes. OpenStack Compute will ensure guest virtual machine instances are pinned to these virtual CPU cores. 
  • vcpu_pin_set=2,3,6,7
  • Set the reserved_host_memory_mb to reserve RAM for host processes. For the purposes of testing used  the default of 512 MB: 
  • reserved_host_memory_mb=512 
# systemctl restart openstack-nova-compute.service

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SCHEDULER CONFIGURATION
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Update /etc/nova/nova.conf

scheduler_default_filters=RetryFilter,AvailabilityZoneFilter,RamFilter,
ComputeFilter,ComputeCapabilitiesFilter,ImagePropertiesFilter,CoreFilter,
NUMATopologyFilter,AggregateInstanceExtraSpecsFilter

# systemctl restart openstack-nova-scheduler.service


 At this point if  creating  a guest you may see some changes to appear in the XML, pinning the guest vCPU(s) to the cores listed in vcpu_pin_set:

<vcpu placement='static' cpuset='2-3,6-7'>1</vcpu>

Add to vmlinuz grub2 command line at the end 
isolcpus=2,3,6,7

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REBOOT
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[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_admin)]# nova aggregate-create performance
+----+-------------+-------------------+-------+----------+
| Id | Name        | Availability Zone | Hosts | Metadata |
+----+-------------+-------------------+-------+----------+
| 1  | performance | -                 |       |          |
+----+-------------+-------------------+-------+----------+

[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_admin)]# nova aggregate-set-metadata 1 pinned=true
Metadata has been successfully updated for aggregate 1.
+----+-------------+-------------------+-------+---------------+
| Id | Name        | Availability Zone | Hosts | Metadata      |
+----+-------------+-------------------+-------+---------------+
| 1  | performance | -                 |       | 'pinned=true' |
+----+-------------+-------------------+-------+---------------+

[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_admin)]# nova flavor-create m1.small.performance 6 4096 20 4
+----+----------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| ID | Name                 | Memory_MB | Disk | Ephemeral | Swap | VCPUs | RXTX_Factor | Is_Public |
+----+----------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| 6  | m1.small.performance | 4096      | 20   | 0         |      | 4     | 1.0         | True      |
+----+----------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_admin)]# nova flavor-key 6 set hw:cpu_policy=dedicated

[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_admin)]# nova flavor-key 6 set aggregate_instance_extra_specs:pinned=true

[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_admin)]# hostname
fedora22server.localdomain

[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_admin)]# nova aggregate-add-host 1 fedora22server.localdomain
Host fedora22server.localdomain has been successfully added for aggregate 1
+----+-------------+-------------------+------------------------------+---------------+
| Id | Name        | Availability Zone | Hosts                        | Metadata      |
+----+-------------+-------------------+------------------------------+---------------+
| 1  | performance | -                 | 'fedora22server.localdomain' | 'pinned=true' |
+----+-------------+-------------------+------------------------------+---------------+

[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_admin)]# . keystonerc_demo
[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_demo)]# glance image-list
+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+-------------+------------------+-------------+--------+
| ID                                   | Name                            | Disk Format | Container Format | Size        | Status |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+-------------+------------------+-------------+--------+
| bf6f5272-ae26-49ae-b0f9-3c4fcba350f6 | CentOS71Image                   | qcow2       | bare             | 1004994560  | active |
| 05ac955e-3503-4bcf-8413-6a1b3c98aefa | cirros                          | qcow2       | bare             | 13200896    | active |
| 7b2085b8-4fe7-4d32-a5c9-5eadaf8bfc52 | VF22Image                       | qcow2       | bare             | 228599296   | active |
| c695e7fa-a69f-4220-abd8-2269b75af827 | Windows Server 2012 R2 Std Eval | qcow2       | bare             | 17182752768 | active |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+-------------+------------------+-------------+--------+

[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_demo)]#neutron net-list
+--------------------------------------+----------+-----------------------------------------------------+
| id                                   | name     | subnets                                             |
+--------------------------------------+----------+-----------------------------------------------------+
| 0daa3a02-c598-4c46-b1ac-368da5542927 | public   | 8303b2f3-2de2-44c2-bd5e-fc0966daec53 192.168.1.0/24 |
| c85a4215-1558-4a95-886d-a2f75500e052 | demo_net | 0cab6cbc-dd80-42c6-8512-74d7b2cbf730 50.0.0.0/24    |
+--------------------------------------+----------+-----------------------------------------------------+

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At this point attempt to launch F22 Cloud instance with created flavor
m1.small.performance
*************************************************************************

[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_demo)]# nova boot --image  7b2085b8-4fe7-4d32-a5c9-5eadaf8bfc52 --key-name oskeydev --flavor  m1.small.performance --nic net-id=c85a4215-1558-4a95-886d-a2f75500e052 vf22-instance

+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| Property                             | Value                                            |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| OS-DCF:diskConfig                    | MANUAL                                           |
| OS-EXT-AZ:availability_zone          | nova                                             |
| OS-EXT-STS:power_state               | 0                                                |
| OS-EXT-STS:task_state                | scheduling                                       |
| OS-EXT-STS:vm_state                  | building                                         |
| OS-SRV-USG:launched_at               | -                                                |
| OS-SRV-USG:terminated_at             | -                                                |
| accessIPv4                           |                                                  |
| accessIPv6                           |                                                  |
| adminPass                            | XsGr87ZLGX8P                                     |
| config_drive                         |                                                  |
| created                              | 2015-07-31T08:03:49Z                             |
| flavor                               | m1.small.performance (6)                         |
| hostId                               |                                                  |
| id                                   | 4b99f3cf-3126-48f3-9e00-94787f040e43             |
| image                                | VF22Image (7b2085b8-4fe7-4d32-a5c9-5eadaf8bfc52) |
| key_name                             | oskeydev                                         |
| metadata                             | {}                                               |
| name                                 | vf22-instance                                    |
| os-extended-volumes:volumes_attached | []                                               |
| progress                             | 0                                                |
| security_groups                      | default                                          |
| status                               | BUILD                                            |
| tenant_id                            | 14f736e6952644b584b2006353ca51be                 |
| updated                              | 2015-07-31T08:03:50Z                             |
| user_id                              | 4ece2385b17a4490b6fc5a01ff53350c                 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_demo)]#nova list
+--------------------------------------+---------------+---------+------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
| ID                                   | Name          | Status  | Task State | Power State | Networks                          |
+--------------------------------------+---------------+---------+------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
| 93906a61-ec0b-481d-b964-2bb99d095646 | CentOS71RLX   | SHUTOFF | -          | Shutdown    | demo_net=50.0.0.21, 192.168.1.159 |
| ac7e9be5-d2dc-4ec0-b0a1-4096b552e578 | VF22Devpin    | ACTIVE  | -          | Running     | demo_net=50.0.0.22                |
| b93c9526-ded5-4b7a-ae3a-106b34317744 | VF22Devs      | SHUTOFF | -          | Shutdown    | demo_net=50.0.0.19, 192.168.1.157 |
| bef20a1e-3faa-4726-a301-73ca49666fa6 | WinSrv2012    | SHUTOFF | -          | Shutdown    | demo_net=50.0.0.16                |
| 4b99f3cf-3126-48f3-9e00-94787f040e43 | vf22-instance | ACTIVE  | -          | Running     | demo_net=50.0.0.23, 192.168.1.160                |
+--------------------------------------+---------------+---------+------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_demo)]#virsh list
 Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------
 2     instance-0000000c              running
 3     instance-0000000d              running

Please, see http://redhatstackblog.redhat.com/2015/05/05/cpu-pinning-and-numa-topology-awareness-in-openstack-compute/
regarding detailed explanation of highlighted blocks, keeping in mind that pinning is done to logical CPU cores ( not physical due to 4 Core CPU with HT enabled ). Multiple cells are also absent, due limitations of i7 47XX Haswell CPU architecture

[root@fedora22server ~(keystone_demo)]#virsh dumpxml instance-0000000d > vf22-instance.xml
<domain type='kvm' id='3'>
  <name>instance-0000000d</name>
  <uuid>4b99f3cf-3126-48f3-9e00-94787f040e43</uuid>
  <metadata>
    <nova:instance xmlns:nova="http://openstack.org/xmlns/libvirt/nova/1.0">
      <nova:package version="2015.1.0-3.fc23"/>
      <nova:name>vf22-instance</nova:name>
      <nova:creationTime>2015-07-31 08:03:54</nova:creationTime>
      <nova:flavor name="m1.small.performance">
        <nova:memory>4096</nova:memory>
        <nova:disk>20</nova:disk>
        <nova:swap>0</nova:swap>
        <nova:ephemeral>0</nova:ephemeral>
        <nova:vcpus>4</nova:vcpus>
      </nova:flavor>
      <nova:owner>
        <nova:user uuid="4ece2385b17a4490b6fc5a01ff53350c">demo</nova:user>
        <nova:project uuid="14f736e6952644b584b2006353ca51be">demo</nova:project>
      </nova:owner>
      <nova:root type="image" uuid="7b2085b8-4fe7-4d32-a5c9-5eadaf8bfc52"/>
    </nova:instance>
  </metadata>
  <memory unit='KiB'>4194304</memory>
  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>4194304</currentMemory>
  <vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu>
  <cputune>
    <shares>4096</shares>
    <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='2'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='6'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='3'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='7'/>
    <emulatorpin cpuset='2-3,6-7'/>
  </cputune>
  <numatune>
    <memory mode='strict' nodeset='0'/>
    <memnode cellid='0' mode='strict' nodeset='0'/>
  </numatune>

  <resource>
    <partition>/machine</partition>
  </resource>
  <sysinfo type='smbios'>
    <system>
      <entry name='manufacturer'>Fedora Project</entry>
      <entry name='product'>OpenStack Nova</entry>
      <entry name='version'>2015.1.0-3.fc23</entry>
      <entry name='serial'>f1b336b1-6abf-4180-865a-b6be5670352e</entry>
      <entry name='uuid'>4b99f3cf-3126-48f3-9e00-94787f040e43</entry>
    </system>
  </sysinfo>
  <os>
    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.3'>hvm</type>
    <boot dev='hd'/>
    <smbios mode='sysinfo'/>
  </os>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
  </features>
  <cpu mode='host-model'>
    <model fallback='allow'/>
    <topology sockets='2' cores='1' threads='2'/>
    <numa>
      <cell id='0' cpus='0-3' memory='4194304' unit='KiB'/>
    </numa>
  </cpu>

  <clock offset='utc'>
    <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/>
    <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/>
    <timer name='hpet' present='no'/>
  </clock>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/nova/instances/4b99f3cf-3126-48f3-9e00-94787f040e43/disk'/>
      <backingStore type='file' index='1'>
        <format type='raw'/>
        <source file='/var/lib/nova/instances/_base/6c60a5ed1b3037bbdb2bed198dac944f4c0d09cb'/>
        <backingStore/>
      </backingStore>
      <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
      <alias name='virtio-disk0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/>
    </disk>
    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
      <alias name='usb0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'>
      <alias name='pci.0'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'>
      <alias name='virtio-serial0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='fa:16:3e:4f:25:03'/>
      <source bridge='qbr567b21fe-52'/>
      <target dev='tap567b21fe-52'/>
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <alias name='net0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>
    <serial type='file'>
      <source path='/var/lib/nova/instances/4b99f3cf-3126-48f3-9e00-94787f040e43/console.log'/>
      <target port='0'/>
      <alias name='serial0'/>
    </serial>
    <serial type='pty'>
      <source path='/dev/pts/2'/>
      <target port='1'/>
      <alias name='serial1'/>
    </serial>
    <console type='file'>
      <source path='/var/lib/nova/instances/4b99f3cf-3126-48f3-9e00-94787f040e43/console.log'/>
      <target type='serial' port='0'/>
      <alias name='serial0'/>
    </console>
    <channel type='spicevmc'>
      <target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0' state='disconnected'/>
      <alias name='channel0'/>
      <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/>
    </channel>
    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
    <graphics type='spice' port='5901' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-us'>
      <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/>
    </graphics>
    <sound model='ich6'>
      <alias name='sound0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
    </sound>
    <video>
      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1'/>
      <alias name='video0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
    </video>
    <memballoon model='virtio'>
      <alias name='balloon0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
      <stats period='10'/>
    </memballoon>
  </devices>
  <seclabel type='dynamic' model='selinux' relabel='yes'>
    <label>system_u:system_r:svirt_t:s0:c359,c706</label>
    <imagelabel>system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c359,c706</imagelabel>
  </seclabel>
</domain>

 

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

CPU Pinning and NUMA Topology on RDO Kilo && Hypervisor Upgrade up to qemu-kvm-ev-2.1.2-23.el7.1 on CentOS 7.1

Posting bellow follows up http://redhatstackblog.redhat.com/2015/05/05/cpu-pinning-and-numa-topology-awareness-in-openstack-compute/
on RDO Kilo upgraded via  qemu-kvm-ev-2.1.2-23.el7.1  on CentOS 7.1
Recent build on CentOS 7.X qemu-kvm-ev-2.1.2-23.el7.1 
enables CPU Pinning and NUMA Topology for RDO Kilo on CentOS 7.1
Qemu-kvm upgrade is supposed to be done as post installation procedure,
i.e. after RDO Kilo deployment on the system. Final target is to reproduce mentioned article on i7 4790 Haswell CPU box, perform launching nova instance with CPU pinning.

See also CPU Pinning and NUMA Topology on RDO Kilo on Fedora Server 22

[root@Centos71 x86_64]# numactl --hardware
available: 1 nodes (0)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
node 0 size: 16326 MB
node 0 free: 4695 MB
node distances:
node   0
0:  10

# virsh capabilities
   .  .  .  .  .

 <topology>
      <cells num='1'>
        <cell id='0'>
          <memory unit='KiB'>16718464</memory>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='4'>4179616</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='2048'>0</pages>
          <distances>
            <sibling id='0' value='10'/>
          </distances>
          <cpus num='8'>
            <cpu id='0' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0,4'/>
            <cpu id='1' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='1,5'/>
            <cpu id='2' socket_id='0' core_id='2' siblings='2,6'/>
            <cpu id='3' socket_id='0' core_id='3' siblings='3,7'/>
            <cpu id='4' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0,4'/>
            <cpu id='5' socket_id='0' core_id='1' siblings='1,5'/>
            <cpu id='6' socket_id='0' core_id='2' siblings='2,6'/>
            <cpu id='7' socket_id='0' core_id='3' siblings='3,7'/>
          </cpus>
        </cell>
      </cells>
</topology>



On each Compute node that pinning of virtual machines will be permitted on open the /etc/nova/nova.conf file and make the following modifications:
  • Set the vcpu_pin_set value to a list or range of logical CPU cores  to reserve for virtual machine processes. OpenStack Compute will ensure guest virtual machine instances are pinned to these virtual CPU cores. 
  • vcpu_pin_set=2,3,6,7
  • Set the reserved_host_memory_mb to reserve RAM for host processes. For the purposes of testing used  the default of 512 MB: 
  • reserved_host_memory_mb=512 
# systemctl restart openstack-nova-compute.service

************************************
SCHEDULER CONFIGURATION
************************************
Update /etc/nova/nova.conf

scheduler_default_filters=RetryFilter,AvailabilityZoneFilter,RamFilter,
ComputeFilter,ComputeCapabilitiesFilter,ImagePropertiesFilter,CoreFilter,
NUMATopologyFilter,AggregateInstanceExtraSpecsFilter

# systemctl restart openstack-nova-scheduler.service


 At this point if  creating  a guest you may see some changes to appear in the XML, pinning the guest vCPU(s) to the cores listed in vcpu_pin_set:

<vcpu placement='static' cpuset='2-3,6-7'>1</vcpu>

Add to vmlinuz grub2 command line at the end 


isolcpus=2,3,6,7

***************************
REBOOT SYSTEM
***************************

[root@Centos71 ~(keystone_admin)]# nova aggregate-create performance
+----+-------------+-------------------+-------+----------+
| Id | Name        | Availability Zone | Hosts | Metadata |
+----+-------------+-------------------+-------+----------+
| 1  | performance | -                 |       |          |
+----+-------------+-------------------+-------+----------+

[root@Centos71 ~(keystone_admin)]# nova aggregate-set-metadata 1
pinned=true
Metadata has been successfully updated for aggregate 1.
+----+-------------+-------------------+-------+---------------+
| Id | Name        | Availability Zone | Hosts | Metadata      |
+----+-------------+-------------------+-------+---------------+
| 1  | performance | -                 |       | 'pinned=true' |
+----+-------------+-------------------+-------+---------------+


Create a new flavor for performance intensive instances. Here is created the m1.small.performance flavor, based on the values used in the existing m1.small flavor. The differences in behaviour between the two will be the result of the metadata to be  added  to the new flavor.


[root@Centos71 ~(keystone_admin)]# nova flavor-create m1.small.performance 6 4096 20 4
+----+----------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| ID | Name                 | Memory_MB | Disk | Ephemeral | Swap | VCPUs | RXTX_Factor | Is_Public |
+----+----------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| 6  | m1.small.performance | 4096      | 20   | 0                |          | 4     | 1.0  | True      |
+----+----------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+

[root@Centos71 ~(keystone_admin)]# nova flavor-key 6 set hw:cpu_policy=dedicated

[root@Centos71 ~(keystone_admin)]# nova flavor-key 6 set aggregate_instance_extra_specs:pinned=true


[root@Centos71 ~(keystone_admin)]# nova aggregate-add-host 1 Centos71.localdomain

Host Centos71.localdomain has been successfully added for aggregate 1
+----+-------------+-------------------+------------------------+---------------+
| Id | Name        | Availability Zone | Hosts                  | Metadata      |
+----+-------------+-------------------+------------------------+---------------+
| 1  | performance | -                 | 'Centos71.localdomain' | 'pinned=true' |
+----+-------------+-------------------+------------------------+---------------+



[root@Centos71 ~(keystone_admin)]# .   keystonerc_demo

[root@Centos71 ~(keystone_demo)]# glance image-list
+--------------------------------------+-----------------+-------------+------------------+------------+--------+
| ID                                   | Name            | Disk Format | Container Format | Size       | Status |
+--------------------------------------+-----------------+-------------+------------------+------------+--------+
| 4a2d708c-7624-439f-9e7e-6e133062e23a | CentOS71Image   | qcow2       | bare             | 1004994560 | active |
| fae94d4b-e810-46a9-8a8f-94dfb812e098 | cirros          | qcow2       | bare             | 13200896   | active |
| f823f0a0-bcdf-416d-915a-8d7cc0278ed7 | Fedora20image   | qcow2       | bare             | 210829312  | active |
| 2198786d-e77f-47ec-959f-fcf7435d5e78 | Fedora21image   | qcow2       | bare             | 158443520  | active |
| 5f1ca33e-d5cc-43fb-9d88-5a7ef0f75959 | VF22Image       | qcow2       | bare             | 228599296  | active |
+--------------------------------------+-----------------+-------------+------------------+------------+--------+

[root@Centos71 ~(keystone_demo)]#  neutron net-list
+--------------------------------------+----------+-----------------------------------------------------+
| id                                   | name     | subnets                                             |
+--------------------------------------+----------+-----------------------------------------------------+
| ab4bd4f8-22b7-43c3-ac60-c1a917a230d7 | public   | 4cbcf377-3742-4385-8362-c071f499ad9c 192.168.1.0/24 |
| 93e0b4be-7900-4a34-adef-758578f75774 | demo_net | 17a5e4f7-fd1b-45fa-b84f-c3af1378c42c 50.0.0.0/24    |
+--------------------------------------+----------+-----------------------------------------------------+

[root@Centos71 ~(keystone_demo)]# nova boot --image 5f1ca33e-d5cc-43fb-9d88-5a7ef0f75959 --key-name oskeydev --flavor m1.small.performance --nic net-id=93e0b4be-7900-4a34-adef-758578f75774 vf22-instance

+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| Property                             | Value                                            |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| OS-DCF:diskConfig                    | MANUAL                                           |
| OS-EXT-AZ:availability_zone          | nova                                             |
| OS-EXT-STS:power_state               | 0                                                |
| OS-EXT-STS:task_state                | scheduling                                       |
| OS-EXT-STS:vm_state                  | building                                         |
| OS-SRV-USG:launched_at               | -                                                |
| OS-SRV-USG:terminated_at             | -                                                |
| accessIPv4                           |                                                  |
| accessIPv6                           |                                                  |
| adminPass                            | trBdDQWd75ck                                     |
| config_drive                         |                                                  |
| created                              | 2015-07-29T07:59:23Z                             |
| flavor                               | m1.small.performance (6)                         |
| hostId                               |                                                  |
| id                                   | d7fda7ca-7124-4c8b-a085-1da784d57348             |
| image                                | VF22Image (5f1ca33e-d5cc-43fb-9d88-5a7ef0f75959) |
| key_name                             | oskeydev                                         |
| metadata                             | {}                                               |
| name                                 | vf22-instance                                    |
| os-extended-volumes:volumes_attached | []                                               |
| progress                             | 0                                                |
| security_groups                      | default                                          |
| status                               | BUILD                                            |
| tenant_id                            | 8c9defac20a74633af4bb4773e45f11e                 |
| updated                              | 2015-07-29T07:59:23Z                             |
| user_id                              | da79d2c66db747eab942bdbe20bb3f44                 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+

[root@Centos71 ~(keystone_demo)]# nova list
+--------------------------------------+---------------+-----------+------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
| ID                                   | Name          | Status    | Task State | Power State | Networks                          |
+--------------------------------------+---------------+-----------+------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+
| 455877f2-7070-48a7-bb24-e0702be2fbc5 | CentOS7RSX05  | SUSPENDED | -          | Shutdown    | demo_net=50.0.0.13, 192.168.1.153 |
| 44645495-a158-4b99-b96b-26f8178fa28f | VF22Devs      | ACTIVE    | -          | Running     | demo_net=50.0.0.23, 192.168.1.163 |
| d7fda7ca-7124-4c8b-a085-1da784d57348 | vf22-instance | ACTIVE    | -          | Running     | demo_net=50.0.0.24, 192.168.1.164 |
+--------------------------------------+---------------+-----------+------------+-------------+-----------------------------------+

[root@Centos71 ~(keystone_demo)]# nova show d7fda7ca-7124-4c8b-a085-1da784d57348
+--------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+
| Property                             | Value                                                    |
+--------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+
| OS-DCF:diskConfig                    | MANUAL                                                   |
| OS-EXT-AZ:availability_zone          | nova                                                     |
| OS-EXT-STS:power_state               | 1                                                        |
| OS-EXT-STS:task_state                | -                                                        |
| OS-EXT-STS:vm_state                  | active                                                   |
| OS-SRV-USG:launched_at               | 2015-07-29T08:00:12.000000                               |
| OS-SRV-USG:terminated_at             | -                                                        |
| accessIPv4                           |                                                          |
| accessIPv6                           |                                                          |
| config_drive                         |                                                          |
| created                              | 2015-07-29T07:59:23Z                                     |
| demo_net network                     | 50.0.0.24, 192.168.1.164                                 |
| flavor                               | m1.small.performance (6)                                 |
| hostId                               | de84a0c94e3271ef0f4620e113814fa69132fea1be65e7ad33edde7d |
| id                                   | d7fda7ca-7124-4c8b-a085-1da784d57348                     |
| image                                | VF22Image (5f1ca33e-d5cc-43fb-9d88-5a7ef0f75959)         |
| key_name                             | oskeydev                                                 |
| metadata                             | {}                                                       |
| name                                 | vf22-instance                                            |
| os-extended-volumes:volumes_attached | []                                                       |
| progress                             | 0                                                        |
| security_groups                      | default                                                  |
| status                               | ACTIVE                                                   |
| tenant_id                            | 8c9defac20a74633af4bb4773e45f11e                         |
| updated                              | 2015-07-29T08:00:12Z                                     |
| user_id                              | da79d2c66db747eab942bdbe20bb3f44                         |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------


[root@Centos71 x86_64]# virsh list
 Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------
 2     instance-0000000d              running
 3     instance-0000000e              running

[root@Centos71 x86_64]# virsh dumpxml instance-0000000e > vf22-02.xml

Please, see http://redhatstackblog.redhat.com/2015/05/05/cpu-pinning-and-numa-topology-awareness-in-openstack-compute/
regarding detailed explanation of highlighted blocks, keeping in mind that pinning is done to logical CPU cores ( not physical due to 4 Core CPU with HT enabled ). Multiple cells are also absent, due limitations of i7 47XX Haswell CPU architecture

[root@Centos71 x86_64]# cat  vf22-02.xml

<domain type='kvm' id='3'>
  <name>instance-0000000e</name>
  <uuid>d7fda7ca-7124-4c8b-a085-1da784d57348</uuid>
  <metadata>
    <nova:instance xmlns:nova="http://openstack.org/xmlns/libvirt/nova/1.0">
      <nova:package version="2015.1.0-3.el7"/>
      <nova:name>vf22-instance</nova:name>
      <nova:creationTime>2015-07-29 08:00:06</nova:creationTime>
      <nova:flavor name="m1.small.performance">
        <nova:memory>4096</nova:memory>
        <nova:disk>20</nova:disk>
        <nova:swap>0</nova:swap>
        <nova:ephemeral>0</nova:ephemeral>
        <nova:vcpus>4</nova:vcpus>
      </nova:flavor>
      <nova:owner>
        <nova:user uuid="da79d2c66db747eab942bdbe20bb3f44">demo</nova:user>
        <nova:project uuid="8c9defac20a74633af4bb4773e45f11e">demo</nova:project>
      </nova:owner>
      <nova:root type="image" uuid="5f1ca33e-d5cc-43fb-9d88-5a7ef0f75959"/>
    </nova:instance>
  </metadata>
  <memory unit='KiB'>4194304</memory>
  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>4194304</currentMemory>
  <vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu>
  <cputune>
    <shares>4096</shares>
    <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='2'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='6'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='3'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='7'/>
    <emulatorpin cpuset='2-3,6-7'/>
  </cputune>
  <numatune>
    <memory mode='strict' nodeset='0'/>
    <memnode cellid='0' mode='strict' nodeset='0'/>
  </numatune>

  <resource>
    <partition>/machine</partition>
  </resource>
    <sysinfo type='smbios'>
      <system>
        <entry name='manufacturer'>Fedora Project</entry>
        <entry name='product'>OpenStack Nova</entry>
        <entry name='version'>2015.1.0-3.el7</entry>
        <entry name='serial'>b3fae7c3-10bd-455b-88b7-95e586342203</entry>
        <entry name='uuid'>d7fda7ca-7124-4c8b-a085-1da784d57348</entry>
      </system>
    </sysinfo>
  <os>
    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-rhel7.1.0'>hvm</type>
    <boot dev='hd'/>
    <smbios mode='sysinfo'/>
  </os>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
  </features>
  <cpu mode='host-model'>
    <model fallback='allow'/>
    <topology sockets='2' cores='1' threads='2'/>
    <numa>
      <cell id='0' cpus='0-3' memory='4194304'/>
    </numa>
  </cpu>

 <clock offset='utc'>
    <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/>
    <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/>
    <timer name='hpet' present='no'/>
  </clock>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/nova/instances/d7fda7ca-7124-4c8b-a085-1da784d57348/disk'/>
      <backingStore type='file' index='1'>
        <format type='raw'/>
        <source file='/var/lib/nova/instances/_base/99f1a80be14fc2563a2af39e944ee1c305ed8c34'/>
        <backingStore/>
      </backingStore>
      <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
      <alias name='virtio-disk0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/>
    </disk>
    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
      <alias name='usb0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'>
      <alias name='pci.0'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'>
      <alias name='virtio-serial0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='fa:16:3e:94:77:fd'/>
      <source bridge='qbr2d20d535-5c'/>
      <target dev='tap2d20d535-5c'/>
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <alias name='net0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>
    <serial type='file'>
      <source path='/var/lib/nova/instances/d7fda7ca-7124-4c8b-a085-1da784d57348/console.log'/>
      <target port='0'/>
      <alias name='serial0'/>
    </serial>
    <serial type='pty'>
      <source path='/dev/pts/3'/>
      <target port='1'/>
      <alias name='serial1'/>
    </serial>
    <console type='file'>
      <source path='/var/lib/nova/instances/d7fda7ca-7124-4c8b-a085-1da784d57348/console.log'/>
      <target type='serial' port='0'/>
      <alias name='serial0'/>
    </console>
    <channel type='spicevmc'>
      <target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0' state='disconnected'/>
      <alias name='channel0'/>
      <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/>
    </channel>
    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
    <graphics type='spice' port='5901' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0 ( only  Compute )' keymap='en-us'>
      <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0 ( only  Compute )'/>
    </graphics>
    <sound model='ich6'>
      <alias name='sound0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
    </sound>
    <video>
      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1'/>
      <alias name='video0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
    </video>
    <memballoon model='virtio'>
      <alias name='balloon0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
      <stats period='10'/>
    </memballoon>
  </devices>
  <seclabel type='dynamic' model='selinux' relabel='yes'>
    <label>system_u:system_r:svirt_t:s0:c670,c918</label>
    <imagelabel>system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c670,c918</imagelabel>
  </seclabel>
</domain>