Tunables for Dell R630s for use when deploying OVS+DPDK
# OSP 10/11 DPDK Tunables
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# R630 NUMA locality – CPUs
# node 0 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22
# 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46
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# node 1 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23
# 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47
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# R630 NUMA locality – NIC
# node 0 dpdk interface – p3p1
# node 1 dpdk interface – p1p1
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# NovaVcpuPinSet (OSP 10+)
# These are the cores that Nova will use for scheduling instances. Pair sibling threads together.
# Using cores from NUMA node 0 only to prevent crossing NUMA boundaries
NovaVcpuPinSet: “‘4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46′”
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# NeutronDpdkCoreList (OSP 10/11) OvsPmdCoreList (OSP 12+)
# This parameter configures a list of CPU cores to be used by the OVS-DPDK Poll Mode Drivers
# The first core from a CPU, should be reserved for host processes, and should be excluded from this list.
NeutronDpdkCoreList: “‘2,26,3,27′”
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# HostIsolatedCoreList (OSP 10/11) IsolCpusList (OSP 12+)
# A set list or range of cores (and their sibling threads) to be appended to the tuned cpu-partitioning profile and isolated from the host.
# These cores will be isolated from any host processes
# Assuming you want to isolate nova cores from all system processes, NovaVcpuPinSet + NeutronDpdkCoreList = HostIsolatedCoreList
HostIsolatedCoreList: “‘2,3,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,26,27,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46′”
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# HostCpusList (OSP 10/11) & OvsDpdkCoreList (OSP 12+)
# A list of logical cores used by OVS-DPDK processes for dpdk-lcore-mask for non-datapath operations
# These cores must be mutually exclusive from the list of cores in NeutronDpdkCoreList/OvsPmdCoreList and NovaVcpuPinSet.
# Allocate the first physical core (and sibling thread) from each NUMA node irrespective of DPDK interface NUMA locality.
HostCpusList: “‘0,24,1,25′”
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# Provide the number of memory channels in the format – [allowed_pattern: “[0-9]+”]:
NeutronDpdkMemoryChannels: “4”
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# Set the memory allocated for each socket:
NeutronDpdkSocketMemory: “‘2048,2048′”
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# An array of filters used by Nova to filter a node.These filters will be applied in the order they are listed,
# so place your most restrictive filters first to make the filtering process more efficient.
NovaSchedulerDefaultFilters: “RamFilter,ComputeFilter,AvailabilityZoneFilter,ComputeCapabilitiesFilter,ImagePropertiesFilter,PciPassthroughFilter,NUMATopologyFilter”
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# Kernel arguments for Compute node
ComputeKernelArgs: “default_hugepagesz=1GB hugepagesz=1G hugepages=32 iommu=pt intel_iommu=on”
