The NUMA topology is shown incorrectly on VMware guest
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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