From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval@proxmox.com>,
pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH qemu-server v2 2/3] memory: add default NUMA allocation policy
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:22:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <07c68cc8-e6f8-413c-b097-d36faedbebb8@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260312145423.434537-3-m.sandoval@proxmox.com>
Am 12.03.26 um 3:54 PM schrieb Maximiliano Sandoval:
> This follows the host NUMA policy. This is the default policy in QEMU,
> see
> https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.html#object-QMP-qom.MemoryBackendProperties.
The reason we don't allow policy 'default' is that it doesn't work in
combination with host-nodes:
kvm: host-nodes must be empty for policy default, or you should
explicitly specify a policy other than default
>
> Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval@proxmox.com>
> ---
> src/PVE/QemuServer/Memory.pm | 7 ++++---
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/PVE/QemuServer/Memory.pm b/src/PVE/QemuServer/Memory.pm
> index bcf6f9c5..f21b0b8d 100644
> --- a/src/PVE/QemuServer/Memory.pm
> +++ b/src/PVE/QemuServer/Memory.pm
> @@ -40,11 +40,12 @@ my $numa_fmt = {
> },
> policy => {
> type => 'string',
> - enum => [qw(preferred bind interleave)],
> + enum => [qw(default preferred bind interleave)],
> description => "NUMA allocation policy.",
> verbose_description => <<EODESC,
> NUMA allocation policy. Possible values are:
>
> + - default: default host policy
> - preferred: prefer the given host node list for allocation
> - bind: restrict memory allocation to the given host node list
> - interleave: interleave memory allocations across the given host node list
> @@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ The models are explained in more details at the kernel's documentation
> https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.html#components-of-memory-policies.
> EODESC
> optional => 1,
> + default => 'default',
> },
> };
> PVE::JSONSchema::register_format('pve-qm-numanode', $numa_fmt);
> @@ -450,8 +452,7 @@ sub config {
> my $hostnodes = print_numa_hostnodes($hostnodelists);
>
> # policy
> - my $policy = $numa->{policy};
> - die "you need to define a policy for hostnode $hostnodes\n" if !$policy;
> + my $policy = $numa->{policy} // $numa_fmt->{policy}->{default};
> $mem_object .= ",host-nodes=$hostnodes,policy=$policy";
> } else {
> die "numa hostnodes need to be defined to use hugepages" if $conf->{hugepages};
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-24 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-12 14:54 [PATCH qemu-server v2 0/3] memory: add verbose_description to NUMA policy Maximiliano Sandoval
2026-03-12 14:54 ` [PATCH qemu-server v2 1/3] " Maximiliano Sandoval
2026-03-12 14:54 ` [PATCH qemu-server v2 2/3] memory: add default NUMA allocation policy Maximiliano Sandoval
2026-08-24 15:22 ` Fiona Ebner [this message]
2026-03-12 14:54 ` [PATCH qemu-server v2 3/3] memory: fix unit in heuristic comment Maximiliano Sandoval
2026-08-24 15:22 ` partially-applied: [PATCH qemu-server v2 0/3] memory: add verbose_description to NUMA policy Fiona Ebner
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