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[Bug 1998032] Re: AMD EPYC Milan CPU, libvirt/qemu incorrect L3 cache displayed using cpu-passthrough flag

 

Hello, I set this bug to invalid as it looks like it is not a nova bug.
Feel free to set this bug to new if you disagree.

** Changed in: nova
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  AMD EPYC Milan CPU, libvirt/qemu incorrect L3 cache displayed using
  cpu-passthrough flag

Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Description
  ===========

  Train version of Openstack, deployed via Openstack-Ansible on Ubuntu
  18.04. Deployment of a single guest VM on a AMD EPYC 7713P 64-Core
  Proc hypervisor.

  Problem,

  The cpu output on the guest VM is not showing the correct L3 cache
  information, only consuming half of the hypervisors respective L3
  cache. This is not ideal for clients performance testing requirements
  and L3 cache utilization. Using nova/libvirt flag of cpu_mode = host-
  passthrough has been the most consistent for cpu performance then any
  of the other cpu_mode flags.

  Questions:
  1. Is there a possible known bug in any bionic versions of libvirt/qemu that may casue this discrepency?
  2. Any missing cpu flags that could cause this issue, that may need to be added to the libvirt domain, via a nova config override?

  
  Expected result
  ===============

  lscpu output of guest VM should show L3 cache value of 32768K

  
  Actual result
  =============

  lscpu on guest vm shows L3 cache value of 16384K

  Environment
  ===========

  OS details:

  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
  Release:	18.04
  Codename:	bionic

  
  Openstack Version:

  DISTRIB_ID="OSA"
  DISTRIB_RELEASE="20.2.6"
  DISTRIB_CODENAME="Train"
  DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="OpenStack-Ansible"

  
  Hypervisor Libvirt/QEMU versions

  qemu-system-x86                        1:4.2-3ubuntu6.23~cloud0
  libvirt-daemon                         6.0.0-0ubuntu8.16~cloud0

  
  Logs & Configs
  ==============

  hypervisor nova libvirt config

  [libvirt]
  inject_partition = -2
  inject_password = False
  inject_key = False
  virt_type = kvm
  cpu_mode = host-passthrough
  live_migration_uri = "qemu+ssh://nova@%s/system?no_verify=1&keyfile=/var/lib/nova/.ssh/id_rsa"
  live_migration_tunnelled = True
  hw_disk_discard = ignore
  disk_cachemodes = file=directsync

  
  **Just a note, reserved one core for the underlying hypervisor and pinned the other 63 cores to the guest VM**

  Hypervisor CPU output

  Architecture:        x86_64
  CPU op-mode(s):      32-bit, 64-bit
  Byte Order:          Little Endian
  CPU(s):              64
  On-line CPU(s) list: 0-63
  Thread(s) per core:  1
  Core(s) per socket:  64
  Socket(s):           1
  NUMA node(s):        1
  Vendor ID:           AuthenticAMD
  CPU family:          25
  Model:               1
  Model name:          AMD EPYC 7713P 64-Core Processor
  Stepping:            1
  CPU MHz:             1781.378
  CPU max MHz:         2000.0000
  CPU min MHz:         1500.0000
  BogoMIPS:            4000.20
  Virtualization:      AMD-V
  L1d cache:           32K
  L1i cache:           32K
  L2 cache:            512K
  L3 cache:            32768K
  NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0-63
  Flags:               fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 invpcid_single hw_pstate ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 invpcid cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold v_vmsave_vmload vgif umip pku ospke vaes vpclmulqdq rdpid overflow_recov succor smca


  
  Virtual Machine CPU output using host-passthrough libvirt flag

  Architecture:          x86_64
  CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
  Byte Order:            Little Endian
  CPU(s):                63
  On-line CPU(s) list:   0-62
  Thread(s) per core:    1
  Core(s) per socket:    63
  Socket(s):             1
  NUMA node(s):          1
  Vendor ID:             AuthenticAMD
  CPU family:            25
  Model:                 1
  Model name:            AMD EPYC 7713P 64-Core Processor
  Stepping:              1
  CPU MHz:               1999.999
  BogoMIPS:              3999.99
  Virtualization:        AMD-V
  Hypervisor vendor:     KVM
  Virtualization type:   full
  L1d cache:             64K
  L1i cache:             64K
  L2 cache:              512K
  L3 cache:              16384K
  NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-62
  Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm art rep_good nopl extd_apicid eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw perfctr_core retpoline_amd ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 clzero xsaveerptr arat npt nrip_save umip vaes vpclmulqdq spec_ctrl intel_stibp arch_capabilities

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