diff --git a/libvirt.changes b/libvirt.changes
index 834f954..b85741e 100644
--- a/libvirt.changes
+++ b/libvirt.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jun 21 07:22:36 UTC 2021 - Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
+
+- Suggest numad package instead of requiring it. numad is not
+  required for libvirt daemon to run, it does not support the
+  cgroup2 API and it has been superseded by the kernel NUMA
+  balancer which is enabled by default.
+  bsc#1184722
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jun  1 15:06:44 UTC 2021 - James Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/libvirt.spec b/libvirt.spec
index 6e95ce3..a8479eb 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec
+++ b/libvirt.spec
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ Requires:       dmidecode
 # For service management
 %{?systemd_requires}
 %if %{with_numad}
-Requires:       numad
+Suggests:       numad
 %endif
 # libvirtd depends on 'messagebus' service
 Requires:       dbus-1