diff --git a/lib/vhost/vhost.c b/lib/vhost/vhost.c
index c96f6335c8..0000cd3297 100644
--- a/lib/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/lib/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ vhost_alloc_copy_ind_table(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 	uint64_t src, dst;
 	uint64_t len, remain = desc_len;
 
-	idesc = rte_malloc(__func__, desc_len, 0);
+	idesc = rte_malloc_socket(__func__, desc_len, 0, vq->numa_node);
 	if (unlikely(!idesc))
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -549,6 +549,7 @@ static void
 init_vring_queue(struct virtio_net *dev, uint32_t vring_idx)
 {
 	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq;
+	int numa_node = SOCKET_ID_ANY;
 
 	if (vring_idx >= VHOST_MAX_VRING) {
 		VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
@@ -570,6 +571,15 @@ init_vring_queue(struct virtio_net *dev, uint32_t vring_idx)
 	vq->callfd = VIRTIO_UNINITIALIZED_EVENTFD;
 	vq->notif_enable = VIRTIO_UNINITIALIZED_NOTIF;
 
+#ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_NUMA
+	if (get_mempolicy(&numa_node, NULL, 0, vq, MPOL_F_NODE | MPOL_F_ADDR)) {
+		VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR, "(%d) failed to query numa node: %s\n",
+			dev->vid, rte_strerror(errno));
+		numa_node = SOCKET_ID_ANY;
+	}
+#endif
+	vq->numa_node = numa_node;
+
 	vhost_user_iotlb_init(dev, vring_idx);
 }
 
@@ -1616,7 +1626,6 @@ int rte_vhost_async_channel_register(int vid, uint16_t queue_id,
 	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq;
 	struct virtio_net *dev = get_device(vid);
 	struct rte_vhost_async_features f;
-	int node;
 
 	if (dev == NULL || ops == NULL)
 		return -1;
@@ -1651,20 +1660,9 @@ int rte_vhost_async_channel_register(int vid, uint16_t queue_id,
 		goto reg_out;
 	}
 
-#ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_NUMA
-	if (get_mempolicy(&node, NULL, 0, vq, MPOL_F_NODE | MPOL_F_ADDR)) {
-		VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
-			"unable to get numa information in async register. "
-			"allocating async buffer memory on the caller thread node\n");
-		node = SOCKET_ID_ANY;
-	}
-#else
-	node = SOCKET_ID_ANY;
-#endif
-
 	vq->async_pkts_info = rte_malloc_socket(NULL,
 			vq->size * sizeof(struct async_inflight_info),
-			RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, node);
+			RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, vq->numa_node);
 	if (!vq->async_pkts_info) {
 		vhost_free_async_mem(vq);
 		VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
@@ -1675,7 +1673,7 @@ int rte_vhost_async_channel_register(int vid, uint16_t queue_id,
 
 	vq->it_pool = rte_malloc_socket(NULL,
 			VHOST_MAX_ASYNC_IT * sizeof(struct rte_vhost_iov_iter),
-			RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, node);
+			RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, vq->numa_node);
 	if (!vq->it_pool) {
 		vhost_free_async_mem(vq);
 		VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
@@ -1686,7 +1684,7 @@ int rte_vhost_async_channel_register(int vid, uint16_t queue_id,
 
 	vq->vec_pool = rte_malloc_socket(NULL,
 			VHOST_MAX_ASYNC_VEC * sizeof(struct iovec),
-			RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, node);
+			RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, vq->numa_node);
 	if (!vq->vec_pool) {
 		vhost_free_async_mem(vq);
 		VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
@@ -1698,7 +1696,7 @@ int rte_vhost_async_channel_register(int vid, uint16_t queue_id,
 	if (vq_is_packed(dev)) {
 		vq->async_buffers_packed = rte_malloc_socket(NULL,
 			vq->size * sizeof(struct vring_used_elem_packed),
-			RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, node);
+			RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, vq->numa_node);
 		if (!vq->async_buffers_packed) {
 			vhost_free_async_mem(vq);
 			VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
@@ -1709,7 +1707,7 @@ int rte_vhost_async_channel_register(int vid, uint16_t queue_id,
 	} else {
 		vq->async_descs_split = rte_malloc_socket(NULL,
 			vq->size * sizeof(struct vring_used_elem),
-			RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, node);
+			RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, vq->numa_node);
 		if (!vq->async_descs_split) {
 			vhost_free_async_mem(vq);
 			VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
diff --git a/lib/vhost/vhost.h b/lib/vhost/vhost.h
index 8078ddff79..8ffe387556 100644
--- a/lib/vhost/vhost.h
+++ b/lib/vhost/vhost.h
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ struct vhost_virtqueue {
 
 	uint16_t		batch_copy_nb_elems;
 	struct batch_copy_elem	*batch_copy_elems;
+	int			numa_node;
 	bool			used_wrap_counter;
 	bool			avail_wrap_counter;
 
diff --git a/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
index d6ec4000c3..d8ec087dfc 100644
--- a/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
+++ b/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
@@ -433,10 +433,10 @@ vhost_user_set_vring_num(struct virtio_net **pdev,
 	if (vq_is_packed(dev)) {
 		if (vq->shadow_used_packed)
 			rte_free(vq->shadow_used_packed);
-		vq->shadow_used_packed = rte_malloc(NULL,
+		vq->shadow_used_packed = rte_malloc_socket(NULL,
 				vq->size *
 				sizeof(struct vring_used_elem_packed),
-				RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
+				RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, vq->numa_node);
 		if (!vq->shadow_used_packed) {
 			VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
 					"failed to allocate memory for shadow used ring.\n");
@@ -447,9 +447,9 @@ vhost_user_set_vring_num(struct virtio_net **pdev,
 		if (vq->shadow_used_split)
 			rte_free(vq->shadow_used_split);
 
-		vq->shadow_used_split = rte_malloc(NULL,
+		vq->shadow_used_split = rte_malloc_socket(NULL,
 				vq->size * sizeof(struct vring_used_elem),
-				RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
+				RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, vq->numa_node);
 
 		if (!vq->shadow_used_split) {
 			VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
@@ -460,9 +460,9 @@ vhost_user_set_vring_num(struct virtio_net **pdev,
 
 	if (vq->batch_copy_elems)
 		rte_free(vq->batch_copy_elems);
-	vq->batch_copy_elems = rte_malloc(NULL,
+	vq->batch_copy_elems = rte_malloc_socket(NULL,
 				vq->size * sizeof(struct batch_copy_elem),
-				RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
+				RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, vq->numa_node);
 	if (!vq->batch_copy_elems) {
 		VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
 			"failed to allocate memory for batching copy.\n");
@@ -505,6 +505,9 @@ numa_realloc(struct virtio_net *dev, int index)
 		return dev;
 	}
 
+	if (node == vq->numa_node)
+		goto out_dev_realloc;
+
 	vq = rte_realloc_socket(vq, sizeof(*vq), 0, node);
 	if (!vq) {
 		VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR, "Failed to realloc virtqueue %d on node %d\n",
@@ -559,6 +562,10 @@ numa_realloc(struct virtio_net *dev, int index)
 		vq->log_cache = lc;
 	}
 
+	vq->numa_node = node;
+
+out_dev_realloc:
+
 	if (dev->flags & VIRTIO_DEV_RUNNING)
 		return dev;
 
@@ -1213,7 +1220,7 @@ vhost_user_set_mem_table(struct virtio_net **pdev, struct VhostUserMsg *msg,
 	struct virtio_net *dev = *pdev;
 	struct VhostUserMemory *memory = &msg->payload.memory;
 	struct rte_vhost_mem_region *reg;
-
+	int numa_node = SOCKET_ID_ANY;
 	uint64_t mmap_offset;
 	uint32_t i;
 
@@ -1253,13 +1260,21 @@ vhost_user_set_mem_table(struct virtio_net **pdev, struct VhostUserMsg *msg,
 		for (i = 0; i < dev->nr_vring; i++)
 			vhost_user_iotlb_flush_all(dev->virtqueue[i]);
 
+	/*
+	 * If VQ 0 has already been allocated, try to allocate on the same
+	 * NUMA node. It can be reallocated later in numa_realloc().
+	 */
+	if (dev->nr_vring > 0)
+		numa_node = dev->virtqueue[0]->numa_node;
+
 	dev->nr_guest_pages = 0;
 	if (dev->guest_pages == NULL) {
 		dev->max_guest_pages = 8;
-		dev->guest_pages = rte_zmalloc(NULL,
+		dev->guest_pages = rte_zmalloc_socket(NULL,
 					dev->max_guest_pages *
 					sizeof(struct guest_page),
-					RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
+					RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE,
+					numa_node);
 		if (dev->guest_pages == NULL) {
 			VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
 				"(%d) failed to allocate memory "
@@ -1269,8 +1284,8 @@ vhost_user_set_mem_table(struct virtio_net **pdev, struct VhostUserMsg *msg,
 		}
 	}
 
-	dev->mem = rte_zmalloc("vhost-mem-table", sizeof(struct rte_vhost_memory) +
-		sizeof(struct rte_vhost_mem_region) * memory->nregions, 0);
+	dev->mem = rte_zmalloc_socket("vhost-mem-table", sizeof(struct rte_vhost_memory) +
+		sizeof(struct rte_vhost_mem_region) * memory->nregions, 0, numa_node);
 	if (dev->mem == NULL) {
 		VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
 			"(%d) failed to allocate memory for dev->mem\n",
@@ -2193,9 +2208,9 @@ vhost_user_set_log_base(struct virtio_net **pdev, struct VhostUserMsg *msg,
 		rte_free(vq->log_cache);
 		vq->log_cache = NULL;
 		vq->log_cache_nb_elem = 0;
-		vq->log_cache = rte_zmalloc("vq log cache",
+		vq->log_cache = rte_malloc_socket("vq log cache",
 				sizeof(struct log_cache_entry) * VHOST_LOG_CACHE_NR,
-				0);
+				0, vq->numa_node);
 		/*
 		 * If log cache alloc fail, don't fail migration, but no
 		 * caching will be done, which will impact performance
