The NUMA topology is shown incorrectly on VMware guest

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Issue

  • The NUMA topology is shown incorrectly on a VMware guest
  • ALL CPU are assigned to one node
# numactl  -H
available: 2 nodes (0-1)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
node 0 size: 32767 MB
node 0 free: 6746 MB
node 1 cpus:
node 1 size: 32768 MB
node 1 free: 32054 MB
node distances:
node   0   1
  0:  10  20
  1:  20  10

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • VMware guest
  • VMware Virtual NUMA topology (vNUMA)
  • numactl

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