5f2212c062
Ever since the feature was introduced with commit 0f8e7ae33ace,
it has contained a logic error in that it attempted to use a NUMA
node map where a CPU map was expected.
Because of that, guests using <numatune> might fail to start:
# virsh start guest
error: Failed to start domain guest
error: cannot set CPU affinity on process 40055: Invalid argument
This was particularly easy to trigger on POWER 8 machines, where
secondary threads always show up as offline in the host: having
<numatune>
<memory mode='strict' placement='static' nodeset='1'/>
</numatune>
in the guest configuration, for example, would result in libvirt
trying to set the process affinity so that it would prefer
running on CPU 1, but since that's a secondary thread and thus
shows up as offline, the operation would fail, and so would
starting the guest.
Use the newly introduced virNumaNodesetToCPUset() to convert the
NUMA node map to a CPU map, which in the example above would be
48,56,64,72,80,88 - a valid input for virProcessSetAffinity().
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1703661
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
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$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
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$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install
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