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Hi Sai

On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 08:50 -0700, Edupuganti, Saikrishna wrote:
> Hi Team,
> 
> When translating the K cpu count from Docker/k8s to Qemu options,
> what is reasoning behind configuring K sockets with 1 core per socket
> instead of K cores with 1 socket? Did any performance measurements
> guide this decision?

no, this is to support the maximum number of vCPUs.

from https://github.com/containers/virtcontainers/pull/591

"The maximum number of CPUs per VM recommended by KVM is 240.
To support this amount of CPUs, the CPU topology must change
to 1 CPU 1 Socket, otherwise the VM will fail and print next
error message:
qemu: max_cpus is too large. APIC ID of last CPU is N"

see issue https://github.com/containers/virtcontainers/issues/597


do you see better pnp numbers by changing the topology?
threads vs cores vs sockets

> 
> When we bring up kata container with 8 cpus it brings up a VM with
> (8+1) sockets - 

read https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/blob/master/const
raints/cpu.md

please don't hesitate to ask me if you don't understand above document.

> 
> kubectl exec -it ubuntu-kata -- lscpu
> Architecture:          x86_64
> CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
> Byte Order:            Little Endian
> CPU(s):                1
> On-line CPU(s) list:   0
> Thread(s) per core:    1
> Core(s) per socket:    1
> Socket(s):             1
> 
> kubectl exec -it ubuntu-kata-8cpu-limit -- lscpu
> Architecture:          x86_64
> CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
> Byte Order:            Little Endian
> CPU(s):                9
> On-line CPU(s) list:   0-8
> Thread(s) per core:    1
> Core(s) per socket:    1
> Socket(s):             9
> 
> Thanks,
> Sai
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