From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com, zamsden@redhat.com,
mtosatti@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 4/7] change kernel accounting to include steal time
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:14:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283195652.1820.1333.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C7C0187.7040401@goop.org>
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 12:07 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> My comments were mostly because I though that this patch was going to
> actually make the scheduler change behaviour to take stolen time into
> account in scheduling decisions - and those decisions would be equally
> meaningful if the slowdown was from HT, PM or stolen time. But AFAICT
> this patch does nothing to that end.
If you want to influence the load-balancer (the only thing that really
cares about HT) the best would probably be to add a term to
kernel/sched_fair.c:update_cpu_power().
Decrease the power relative to the amount of steal-time, just like freq
and time spend on RT tasks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-30 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-30 16:06 [RFC v2 0/7] kvm stael time implementation Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC v2 1/7] change headers preparing for steal time Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC 1/8] Implement getnsboottime kernel API Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC v2 2/7] always call kvm_write_guest Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC 2/8] change headers preparing for steal time Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC 3/8] always call kvm_write_guest Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC v2 3/7] measure time out of guest Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC v2 4/7] change kernel accounting to include steal time Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC 4/8] measure time out of guest Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC 5/8] change kernel accounting to include steal time Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC v2 5/7] kvm steal time implementation Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC 6/8] " Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC v2 6/7] touch softlockup watchdog Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC v2 7/7] tell guest about steal time feature Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC 7/8] touch softlockup watchdog Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:06 ` [RFC 8/8] tell guest about steal time feature Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 17:33 ` [RFC v2 6/7] touch softlockup watchdog Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-30 18:07 ` Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 16:46 ` [RFC 5/8] change kernel accounting to include steal time Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-30 17:26 ` Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 17:30 ` [RFC v2 4/7] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-30 18:39 ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-30 19:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-30 19:14 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-08-30 19:17 ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-30 19:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-30 19:45 ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-30 22:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-30 23:03 ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-31 8:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-02 18:19 ` Glauber Costa
2010-09-03 3:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-09-03 7:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-01 23:56 ` [RFC 1/8] Implement getnsboottime kernel API Zachary Amsden
2010-08-30 16:37 ` [RFC v2 0/7] kvm stael time implementation Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-30 16:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-30 17:21 ` Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 17:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-08-30 17:06 [RFC v2 0/7] kvm steal time implementation proposal Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 17:06 ` [RFC v2 4/7] change kernel accounting to include steal time Glauber Costa
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