octavia/releasenotes/notes/add-cpu-pinning-element-86617303b720d5a9.yaml
Tom Weininger c1ebe18e2a Add cpu-pinning element
The new "cpu-pinning" element optimizes the amphora image for better
vertical scaling. When an amphora flavor with multiple vCPUs is
configured it will configure the kernel to isolate (isolcpus)
all vCPUs except the first one.
Furthermore, it uninstalls irqbalance and sets the IRQ affinity to the
first CPU. That way the other CPUs are free to be used by HAProxy
exclusively. A new customized TuneD profile applies some more tweaks
for improving network latency.

This new feature is disabled by default in diskimage-create.sh.

Story: 2010236
Task: 46042
Change-Id: I1a0591de79be867483a044705e866b2368b2a567
2022-12-08 11:59:32 +01:00

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features:
- |
The new "cpu-pinning" element optimizes the amphora image for better
vertical scaling. When an amphora flavor with multiple vCPUs is configured
it will configure the kernel to isolate (isolcpus)
all vCPUs except the first one.
Furthermore, it uninstalls irqbalance and sets the IRQ affinity to the
first CPU. That way the other CPUs are free to be used by HAProxy
exclusively. A new customized TuneD profile applies some more tweaks
for improving network latency.
This new feature is disabled by default, but can be enabled by running
`diskimage-create.sh` with the `-m` option or setting the
`AMP_ENABLE_CPUPINNING` environment variable to 1 before running the script.
upgrade:
- |
Amphora vertical scaling optimizations require a new amphora image
build with the optional CPU pinning feature enabled in order
to become effective.