From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Avi Kiviti <avi@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:00:57 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101203133056.GF27994@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291382619.32004.2124.camel@laptop>
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:23:39PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Right, so another approach might be to simply swap the vruntime between
> curr and p.
Can't that cause others to stave? For ex: consider a cpu p0 having these tasks:
p0 -> A0 B0 A1
A0/A1 have entered some sort of AB<->BA spin-deadlock, as a result A0 wants to
direct yield to A1 which wants to direct yield to A0. If we keep swapping their
runtimes, can't it starve B0?
- vatsa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-03 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-02 19:41 [RFC PATCH 0/3] directed yield for Pause Loop Exiting Rik van Riel
2010-12-02 19:43 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] kvm: keep track of which task is running a KVM vcpu Rik van Riel
2010-12-03 1:18 ` Chris Wright
2010-12-03 14:50 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-03 15:55 ` Chris Wright
2010-12-05 12:40 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-03 12:17 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-03 14:16 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-05 12:59 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-02 19:44 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function Rik van Riel
2010-12-03 0:50 ` Chris Wright
2010-12-03 18:27 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-03 19:30 ` Chris Wright
2010-12-03 21:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-03 5:54 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-12-03 13:46 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-03 14:45 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-12-03 14:48 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-03 15:09 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-12-03 15:35 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-03 16:20 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-03 17:09 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-03 17:29 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-03 17:33 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-03 17:45 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-03 20:05 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-12-03 21:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-03 13:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-03 13:30 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri [this message]
2010-12-03 14:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-03 14:06 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-03 14:10 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-03 21:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-04 13:02 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-10 4:34 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-10 8:39 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-10 14:55 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-08 17:55 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-08 20:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-08 20:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-08 22:59 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-02 19:45 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] kvm: use yield_to instead of sleep in kvm_vcpu_on_spin Rik van Riel
2010-12-03 2:24 ` Chris Wright
2010-12-05 12:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-05 12:56 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-08 22:38 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-09 10:28 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-09 17:07 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-11 7:27 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-02 22:41 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] directed yield for Pause Loop Exiting Chris Wright
2010-12-05 13:02 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-10 5:03 ` Balbir Singh
2010-12-10 14:54 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-11 7:31 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-11 13:57 ` Balbir Singh
2010-12-13 11:57 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-13 12:39 ` Balbir Singh
2010-12-13 12:42 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-13 17:02 ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-14 9:25 ` Balbir Singh
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-02 11:43 [RFC PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function Hillf Danton
2011-01-02 17:19 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-03 4:18 ` Hillf Danton
2011-01-03 5:04 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-04 12:44 ` Hillf Danton
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