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[Tetsuro Nakamura <nakamura.tetsuro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

With the change of https://review.openstack.org/#/c/465160, 
NUMA related features like CPU pinning, hugepages, and realtime are now
explicitly disabled when using libvirt driver with `virt_type=qemu`, 
and compute hosts with libvirt/qemu driver are filtered out with NUMATopologyFilter.

This is because qemu with the TCG(tiny code generator) backend doesn’t support
cpu pinning and currently nova uses cpu pinning implicitly when NUMA related
features are specified in image/flavor.

However, qemu with the TCG backend potentially has capability to support 
some NUMA related features such as NUMA topology and hugepages.

So, we should change codes to enable libvirt/qemu driver to support these NUMA features
without cpu pinning.

Steps to reproduce
==================
- deploy nova with virt_type=qemu and enabled_filters=NUMATopologyFilter in nova.conf.
- set hw:numa_nodes=1 or hw:mem_page_size=large in the nova flavor.

- boot an instance with this modified flavor.

Expected result
===============
VM starts with a virtual numa topology of 1 numa node(hw:numa_nodes=1)
or with hugepage backed memory (hw:mem_page_size=large).

Actual result
=============
nova reports no valid host error because of the NUMATopologyFilter.

Note: Remenber to update at least these documents when they are enabled.
https://docs.openstack.org/nova/pike/admin/huge-pages.html
https://docs.openstack.org/nova/pike/admin/cpu-topologies.html

** Affects: nova
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  [libvirt] virt_type=qemu doesn't support NUMA related features

Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  New

Bug description:
  With the change of https://review.openstack.org/#/c/465160, 
  NUMA related features like CPU pinning, hugepages, and realtime are now
  explicitly disabled when using libvirt driver with `virt_type=qemu`, 
  and compute hosts with libvirt/qemu driver are filtered out with NUMATopologyFilter.

  This is because qemu with the TCG(tiny code generator) backend doesn’t support
  cpu pinning and currently nova uses cpu pinning implicitly when NUMA related
  features are specified in image/flavor.

  However, qemu with the TCG backend potentially has capability to support 
  some NUMA related features such as NUMA topology and hugepages.

  So, we should change codes to enable libvirt/qemu driver to support these NUMA features
  without cpu pinning.

  Steps to reproduce
==================
  - deploy nova with virt_type=qemu and enabled_filters=NUMATopologyFilter in nova.conf.
  - set hw:numa_nodes=1 or hw:mem_page_size=large in the nova flavor.
  
- boot an instance with this modified flavor.

  Expected result
===============
  VM starts with a virtual numa topology of 1 numa node(hw:numa_nodes=1)
or with hugepage backed memory (hw:mem_page_size=large).

  Actual result
=============
  nova reports no valid host error because of the NUMATopologyFilter.

  Note: Remenber to update at least these documents when they are enabled.
  https://docs.openstack.org/nova/pike/admin/huge-pages.html
  https://docs.openstack.org/nova/pike/admin/cpu-topologies.html

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