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Links between NUMA nodes can have different latencies and
bandwidths. This info is newly defined in ACPI 6.2 under
Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT) table. Linux kernel
learned how to report these values under sysfs and thus we can
expose them in our capabilities XML. The sysfs interface is
documented in kernel's Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst.
Long story short, two nodes can be in initiator-target
relationship. A node can be initiator if it has a CPU or a device
that's capable of initiating memory transfer. Therefore a node
that has just memory can only be target. An initiator-target link
can then have any combination of {bandwidth, latency} - {access,
read, write} attribute (6 in total). However, the standard says
access is applicable iff read and write values are the same.
Therefore, we really have just four combinations of attributes:
bandwidth-read, bandwidth-write, latency-read, latency-write.
This is the combination that kernel reports anyway.
Then, under /sys/system/devices/node/nodeX/acccessN/initiators we
find values for those 4 attributes and also symlinks named
"nodeN" which then represent initiators to nodeX. For instance:
/sys/system/node/node1/access1/initiators/node0 -> ../../node0
/sys/system/node/node1/access1/initiators/read_bandwidth
/sys/system/node/node1/access1/initiators/read_latency
/sys/system/node/node1/access1/initiators/write_bandwidth
/sys/system/node/node1/access1/initiators/write_latency
This means that node0 is initiator and node1 is target and values
of the interconnect can be read.
In theory, there can be separate links to memory side caches too
(e.g. one link from node X to node Y's main memory, another from
node X to node Y's L1 cache, another one to L2 cache and so on).
But sysfs does not express this relationship just yet.
The "accessN" means either "access0" or "access1". The difference
is that while the former expresses the best interconnect between
two nodes including CPUS and I/O devices (such as GPUs and NICs),
the latter includes only CPUs and thus is what we need.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1786309
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
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==============================
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.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the
website:
https://libvirt.org
License
=======
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Installation
============
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https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
============
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components
the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development
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=======
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