NUMA reporting inconsistent node spread on PPC64 LPAR

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • NUMA reporting inconsistent node spread on PPC64 with a shared LPAR.
# numactl --hardware
available: 2 nodes (0,2)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127
node 0 size: 0 MB
node 0 free: 0 MB
node 2 cpus:
node 2 size: 131072 MB
node 2 free: 124342 MB
node distances:
node   0   2
  0:  10  40
  2:  40  10

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • IBM Power
  • LPAR with Shared CPU pool

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