Enable NUMA Balancing and UCLAMP task feature for HPC workloads

[Alberto-Perez-Guevara]

Enable NUMA Balancing and UCLAMP task feature for HPC workloads

Merge Checklist

• The toolchain has been rebuilt successfully (or no changes were made to it)
• The toolchain/worker package manifests are up-to-date
• Any updated packages successfully build (or no packages were changed)
• Packages depending on static components modified in this PR (Golang, *-static subpackages, etc.) have had their Release tag incremented.
• Package tests (%check section) have been verified with RUN_CHECK=y for existing SPEC files, or added to new SPEC files
• All package sources are available
• cgmanifest files are up-to-date and sorted (./cgmanifest.json, ./toolkit/scripts/toolchain/cgmanifest.json, .github/workflows/cgmanifest.json)
• LICENSE-MAP files are up-to-date (./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/data/licenses.json, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSES-MAP.md, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSE-EXCEPTIONS.PHOTON)
• All source files have up-to-date hashes in the *.signatures.json files
• sudo make go-tidy-all and sudo make go-test-coverage pass
• Documentation has been updated to match any changes to the build system
• Ready to merge

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Summary

Following the investigation by the Singularity team, it was found a performance issue when comparing Hierarchical Virtualization - L1VH - kernel and HPC. Investigation found that enabling CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING and CONFIG_UCLAMP reduced the VGG test regression to less than 2% (an acceptable range) when running superbenchmark and comparing the L1 Ubuntu 5.15 and L1 Azure Linux 3.0 VMs.

Change Log

Changes to be committed:
modified: config
modified: kernel.signatures.json
modified: kernel.spec
modified: SPECS-SIGNED/kernel-64k-signed/kernel-64k-signed.spec
modified: SPECS-SIGNED/kernel-signed/kernel-signed.spec
modified: SPECS-SIGNED/kernel-uki-signed/kernel-uki-signed.spec
modified: SPECS/kernel-64k/kernel-64k.spec
modified: SPECS/kernel-headers/kernel-headers.spec
modified: SPECS/kernel/kernel-uki.spec
modified: toolkit/resources/manifests/package/pkggen_core_aarch64.txt
modified: toolkit/resources/manifests/package/pkggen_core_x86_64.txt
modified: toolkit/resources/manifests/package/toolchain_aarch64.txt
modified: toolkit/resources/manifests/package/toolchain_x86_64.txt

Does this affect the toolchain?

NO

Associated issues

55353192

Test Methodology

• Pipeline build id: 687785
• Test kernel changes in Hierarchical Virtualization - L1VH mode
• Test kernel in Azlinuc_HPC_Image versions 12.0.0 in Guest OS VM mode
• Run Superbenchmark for 18hrs.
• Run Hyper-V