Determining placement fitness for partitions under a hypervisor

• US 9,104,453 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2012
• Issued: 08/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Anand, Vaijayanthimala K., Mankowski, Richard, Olszewski, Bret R., Reyes, Sergio
• Primary Examiner(s): Puente, Emerson
• Assistant Examiner(s): DO, STEVEN M
• Application Number:
  US13/529,790
• Publication Number:
  US 20130346967A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,146 Days
• Field of Search: 718/1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45583 Memory management, e.g. access or allocation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455

Abstract

A technique for determining placement fitness for partitions under a hypervisor in a host computing system having non-uniform memory access (NUMA) nodes. In an embodiment, a partition resource specification is received from a partition score requester. The partition resource specification identifies a set of computing resources needed for a virtual machine partition to be created by a hypervisor in the host computing system. Resource availability within the NUMA nodes of the host computing system is assessed to determine possible partition placement options. A partition fitness score of a most suitable one of the partition placement options is calculated. The partition fitness score is reported to the partition score requester.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a plurality of non-uniform memory access (NUMA) nodes each having a set of computing resources that includes CPU cores with associated memory and I/O resources;

program instructions stored in a memory of said system for programming a processor in said system to perform operations for determining NUMA node placement fitness for virtual machine partitions that can be provisioned on said NUMA nodes with each virtual machine partition occupying one or more of said NUMA nodes, said virtual machine partitions being managed under a hypervisor in said system and each comprising a set of computing resources that include processor, memory and I/O resources, said operations comprising;

receiving from a partition score requester a partition resource specification identifying a set of computing resources, including processor, memory and I/O resources, needed for a virtual machine partition to be created by a hypervisor in said host computing system, said partition score requester being a resource manager agent that provisions virtual resources in response to resource requests from customer devices;

assessing resource availability within said NUMA nodes to determine possible partition placement options representing one or more NUMA nodes where said virtual machine partition with said needed computing resources could be provisioned;

calculating a partition fitness score of a most suitable one or more NUMA nodes representing one of said partition placement options;

said partition fitness score reflecting an ability of said hypervisor to provision said needed computing resources within a single one of said NUMA nodes; and

reporting said partition fitness score to said partition score requester.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said partition fitness score comprises predetermined categories.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said partition fitness score comprises a numeric gradation value that is weighted to favor different resource characteristics.

4. The system of claim 1, further including receiving a reservation request based on said partition fitness score and reserving said computing resources for use in fulfilling a partition provisioning request.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said partition fitness score reflects an ability of said hypervisor to provision said computing resources within an assigned resource pool in said host computing system representing a managed subset of host resources specified by said score requester.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said partition fitness score reflects an ability of said hypervisor to provision computing resources for a set of partitions that run components of a common workload.

7. A non-transitory computer program product, comprising:

one or more data storage media;

a computer program stored on said one or more data storage media, said computer program comprising instructions for performing machine operations for determining NUMA node placement fitness for virtual machine partitions that can be provisioned on said NUMA nodes with each virtual machine partition occupying one or more of said NUMA nodes, said virtual machine partitions being managed under a hypervisor in a host computing system having non-uniform memory access (NUMA) nodes, each virtual machine partition comprising a set of computing resources that include processor, memory and I/O resources, said operations comprising;

receiving from a partition score requester a partition resource specification identifying a set of computing resources, including processor, memory and I/O resources, needed for a virtual machine partition to be created by a hypervisor in said host computing system, said partition score requester being a resource manage agent that provisions virtual resources in response to resource requests from customer devices;

assessing resource availability within the NUMA nodes of said host computing system to determine possible partition placement options representing one or more NUMA nodes where said virtual machine partition with said needed computing resources could be provisioned;

calculating a partition fitness score of a most suitable one or more NUMA nodes representing one of said partition placement options;

said partition fitness score reflecting an ability of said hypervisor to provision said computing resources within a single one of said NUMA nodes; and

reporting said partition fitness score to said partition score requester.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein said partition fitness score comprises predetermined categories.

9. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein said partition fitness score comprises a numeric gradation value that is weighted to favor different resource characteristics.

10. The computer program product of claim 7, further including receiving a reservation request based on said partition fitness score and reserving said computing resources for use in fulfilling a partition provisioning request.

11. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein said partition fitness score reflects an ability of said hypervisor to provision said computing resources within an assigned resource pool in said host computing system representing a managed subset of host resources specified by said score requester.

12. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein said partition fitness score reflects an ability of said hypervisor to provision computing resources for a set of partitions that run components of a common workload.