using-topology-manager.adoc

Using Topology Manager

Topology Manager collects hints from the CPU Manager, Device Manager, and other Hint Providers to align pod resources, such as CPU, SR-IOV VFs, and other device resources, for all Quality of Service (QoS) classes on the same non-uniform memory access (NUMA) node.

Topology Manager uses topology information from collected hints to decide if a pod can be accepted or rejected on a node, based on the configured Topology Manager policy and Pod resources requested.

Topology Manager is useful for workloads that use hardware accelerators to support latency-critical execution and high throughput parallel computation.

Note	To use Topology Manager you must use the CPU Manager with the static policy. For more information on CPU Manager, see Using CPU Manager.

modules/topology-manager-policies.adoc modules/setting-up-topology-manager.adoc

Additional resources

For more information on CPU Manager, see Using CPU Manager.

modules/pod-interactions-with-topology-manager.adoc