Hello all,
i have a question regarding the numa. I have a red hat vm ( 5.10 ) , configured right now with 16 vcpu ( 16 sockets , 1 core ).
I have enabled Hot Add memory and Hot Add cpu.
in vmware.log for the vm i see:
2017-02-28T14:24:54.604Z| vmx| NUMA and VCPU hot add are incompatible. Forcing UMA
so am i correct that in esxtop i should see unnder NHN - ? Right now i see there 0,1
What is more inside the guest i can run numactl and i see this :
And now i am bit confused. As per KB:
vNUMA is disabled if VCPU hotplug is enabled (2040375) | VMware KB
Since i have enabled the memory and cpu hot add, i should not see any numa, Numactl says that it has 3 nodes. So now i am even more confused, as in esxtop there visible NHN : 0,1 .
Can somebody correct me in my thinking ?
In ESXTOP present 2 numa nodes, since i have 2 CPU sockets, each with 6 cores , with ht its 12 logical cpu per socket.
esxcli hardware memory get | grep -i numa
NUMA Node Count: 2
Why in guest o/s i see 3 numa nodes ? First this is that i would expect to see 2, but since the hotplug is turned on , i would expect to see none ?
If i change the number of vcpu in VM to 12 , then numactl is reporting 2 nodes .
Any chance , somebody could explain this to me, or point me to some documentation that explain this in detail ?
Many thanks.
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