[PATCH v6 0/2] Methodology change for hugepage configuration

[Nicholas Pratte <npratte@iol.unh.edu>]

In order to prevent accidental misconfiguration of hugepages at runtime,
the following changes are made to only allow for configuration of 2MB
hugepages within the DTS config.yaml. In the previous implementation, a
default hugepage size was selected via the size listed in /proc/meminfo.
The problem with this implementation is that, assuming the end-user has
made prior modifications to the system, /proc/meminfo may default to
hugepage sizes that are not recommended to be configured at runtime
(i.e. 1GB hugepages). This can lead to two problems: overallocation of
hugepages (which may crash the remote host) configuration of hugepages
sizes that are not recommended during runtime. In this new implementation,
we stipulate that any runtime hugepage configuration size that is not 2MB
is considered an outlier. If the end-user would like to configure either
1GB hugepages or any unique hugepage size outside of 2MB, then they should
make these configurations either at startup (in the case of 1GB hugepages)
or runtime outside of DTS configuration (if a user would like hugepages
that are not 2MB). In either case, the expectation is that, if wish to
use hugepage sizes that are not 2MB, you will make these changes outside
and prior to the initialization of DTS.

The end-user has two options: remove the option for hugepage
configuration in the conf.yaml, or keep the option and specify the
amount of 2MB hugepages desired. In the case of the former, then we assume
that hugepages are already configured prior to DTS initialization. In
the latter case, the user must define the amount of 2MB hugepages to be
configured at runtime. If the amount of 2MB hugepages requested exceeds
the amount of 2MB hugepages already configured on the system, then the
system will remount hugepages to cover the difference. If the amount of
hugepages requested is either greater than or equal to the amount
already configured on the system, then nothing is done.

Nicholas Pratte (2):
  dts: Change hugepage runtime config to 2MB Exclusively
  dts: Change hugepage 'amount' to a different term

 doc/guides/tools/dts.rst                     |  6 ++++-
 dts/conf.yaml                                |  8 +++---
 dts/framework/config/__init__.py             |  8 +++---
 dts/framework/config/conf_yaml_schema.json   | 12 ++++-----
 dts/framework/config/types.py                |  4 +--
 dts/framework/testbed_model/linux_session.py | 28 +++++++++++---------
 dts/framework/testbed_model/node.py          |  4 ++-
 dts/framework/testbed_model/os_session.py    |  7 ++++-
 8 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

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