Re: Re: IDLE domain is scheduled more than dom0

[Stephan Diestelhorst <sd386@cam.ac.uk>]

Andrew Theurer schrieb:

>On Friday 08 July 2005 09:53, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
>  
>
>>>	Shouldn't IDLE domain not be scheduled for most time? Because
>>>idle task will call into PAL for power save on XEN/IA64, the
>>>performance is really, really bad to boot Dom0. The net effect is
>>>about ten times slower. After adding "sched=bvt", everything back
>>>to normal.
>>>      
>>>
>>If the sedf scheduler is scheduling the idle domain when
>>domain0 is runnable, surely this is affecting performance
>>on x86 also and is a bug that should be fixed?
>>
>>Has anyone done any performance testing (on x86) since
>>sedf was checked in as the default?
>>    
>>
>
>Just tried launching some cpu bound tasks in dom0, and I get only 75% 
>cpu util for dom0.  I'll try the other domain scheduler and see if it 
>clears it up.
>
>-Andrew
>
>
> cpu0:  [075.3] d0-0[075.3]
> cpu1:  [075.3] d0-1[075.3]
> cpu2:  [075.3] d0-2[075.3]
> cpu3:  [074.8] d0-3[074.8]
>  
>
This is the current default behaviour of domain 0, it gets 75% of the
CPU time and no slack time. This is easily changeable, and I guess it is
usefull to do so!
Stephan