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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	riel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: response to SIGUSR1 to start/stop a VCPU (v2)
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:22:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291224176.32004.1763.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101201171758.GA8514@sequoia.sous-sol.org>

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:17 -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> Directed yield and fairness don't mix well either. You can end up
> feeding the other tasks more time than you'll ever get back.

If the directed yield is always to another task in your cgroup then
inter-guest scheduling fairness should be maintained. 

Yes, but not the inter-vcpu fairness.

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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: response to SIGUSR1 to start/stop a VCPU (v2)
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:22:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291224176.32004.1763.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101201171758.GA8514@sequoia.sous-sol.org>

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:17 -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> Directed yield and fairness don't mix well either. You can end up
> feeding the other tasks more time than you'll ever get back.

If the directed yield is always to another task in your cgroup then
inter-guest scheduling fairness should be maintained. 

Yes, but not the inter-vcpu fairness.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-01 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-23 16:49 [PATCH] qemu-kvm: response to SIGUSR1 to start/stop a VCPU (v2) Anthony Liguori
2010-11-23 16:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-11-23 19:35 ` Blue Swirl
2010-11-23 19:35   ` Blue Swirl
2010-11-23 21:46   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-23 21:46     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-23 23:43     ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-11-23 23:43       ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-11-24  1:15       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-24  1:15         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-24  2:08         ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-11-24  2:08           ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-11-24  8:18 ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-24  8:18   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-11-24 13:58   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-24 13:58     ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-11-24 14:23     ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-24 14:23       ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-12-01 12:37       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-01 12:37         ` [Qemu-devel] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-01 12:56         ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-01 12:56           ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-12-01 16:12           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-01 16:12             ` [Qemu-devel] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-01 16:25             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 16:25               ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 17:17               ` Chris Wright
2010-12-01 17:17                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Chris Wright
2010-12-01 17:22                 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-12-01 17:22                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 17:26                   ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-01 17:26                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Rik van Riel
2010-12-01 19:07                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 19:07                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 19:24                       ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-01 19:24                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Rik van Riel
2010-12-01 19:35                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 19:35                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 19:42                           ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-01 19:42                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Rik van Riel
2010-12-01 19:47                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 19:47                               ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-02  9:07                       ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-02  9:07                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-12-01 17:46                   ` Chris Wright
2010-12-01 17:46                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Chris Wright
2010-12-01 17:29               ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-01 17:29                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-01 17:45                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 17:45                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 18:00                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-01 18:00                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-01 19:09                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 19:09                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-02  9:17                       ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-02  9:17                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-12-02 11:47                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 11:47                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 12:22                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 12:22                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 12:41                           ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-02 12:41                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-12-02 13:13                             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 13:13                               ` [Qemu-devel] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 13:49                               ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-02 13:49                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-12-02 15:27                                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 15:27                                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 15:28                                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 15:28                                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 15:33                                   ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-02 15:33                                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-12-02 15:44                                     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 15:44                                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 12:19                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 12:19                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02 12:42                           ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-02 12:42                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-12-02  9:14                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-02  9:14                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity

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