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authorMars Toktonaliev <mars.toktonaliev@nokia.com>2016-07-20 18:01:52 -0400
committerMars Toktonaliev <mars.toktonaliev@nokia.com>2016-08-04 01:25:07 -0400
commit690954dec9cf852fb2830605e1e295ab58c0a2e1 (patch)
tree04bc6e5f562fe4d5cdb2d9d57f888b724e2bc193 /tools
parent5109fb49432be5bb0075b6b55e8b5304fa6172be (diff)
Hugepages: on the fly allocation.
If no hugepages are available, try to allocate HUGEPAGE_RAM_ALLOCATION amount of RAM for hugepages. JIRA: VSPERF-290 Change-Id: I092b3831254579eeebbe45e85884828f9d749895 Signed-off-by: Mars Toktonaliev <mars.toktonaliev@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/hugepages.py45
1 files changed, 44 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/hugepages.py b/tools/hugepages.py
index 3a434d6e..119f94b5 100644
--- a/tools/hugepages.py
+++ b/tools/hugepages.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import re
import subprocess
import logging
import locale
+import math
from tools import tasks
from conf import settings
@@ -30,6 +31,46 @@ _LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# hugepage management
#
+def get_hugepage_size():
+ """Return the size of the configured hugepages
+ """
+ hugepage_size_re = re.compile(r'^Hugepagesize:\s+(?P<size_hp>\d+)\s+kB',
+ re.IGNORECASE)
+ with open('/proc/meminfo', 'r') as fh:
+ data = fh.readlines()
+ for line in data:
+ match = hugepage_size_re.search(line)
+ if match:
+ _LOGGER.info('Hugepages size: %s', match.group('size_hp'))
+ return int(match.group('size_hp'))
+ else:
+ _LOGGER.error('Could not parse for hugepage size')
+ return 0
+
+
+
+def allocate_hugepages():
+ """Allocate hugepages on the fly
+ """
+ hp_size = get_hugepage_size()
+
+ if hp_size > 0:
+ nr_hp = int(math.ceil(settings.getValue('HUGEPAGE_RAM_ALLOCATION')/hp_size))
+ _LOGGER.info('Will allocate %s hugepages.', nr_hp)
+
+ nr_hugepages = 'vm.nr_hugepages=' + str(nr_hp)
+ try:
+ tasks.run_task(['sudo', 'sysctl', nr_hugepages],
+ _LOGGER, 'Trying to allocate hugepages..', True)
+ except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
+ _LOGGER.error('Unable to allocate hugepages.')
+ return False
+ return True
+
+ else:
+ _LOGGER.error('Division by 0 will be supported in next release')
+ return False
+
def is_hugepage_available():
"""Check if hugepages are available on the system.
@@ -47,8 +88,10 @@ def is_hugepage_available():
continue
num_huge = result.group('num_hp')
- if not num_huge:
+ if num_huge == '0':
_LOGGER.info('No free hugepages.')
+ if not allocate_hugepages():
+ return False
else:
_LOGGER.info('Found \'%s\' free hugepage(s).', num_huge)
return True