https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1624223
There are two ways to request memory preallocation on cmd line:
-mem-prealloc and .prealloc attribute for a memory-backend-file.
However, as it turns out it's not safe to use both at the same
time. If -mem-prealloc is used then qemu will fully allocate the
memory (this is done by actually touching every page that has
been allocated). Then, if .prealloc=yes is specified,
mbind(flags = MPOL_MF_STRICT | MPOL_MF_MOVE) is called which:
a) has to (possibly) move the memory to a different NUMA node,
b) can have no effect when hugepages are in play (thus ignoring user
request to place memory on desired NUMA nodes).
Prefer -mem-prealloc as it is more backward compatible
compared to switching to "-numa node,memdev= + -object
memory-backend-file".
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
