Re: [PATCH -v3 1/1] ratelimit: Implement rate limit for credit2 scheduler Rate limit assures that a vcpu will execute for a minimum amount of time before being put at the back of a queue or being preempted by higher priority thread.

[anshul makkar <anshul.makkar@citrix.com>]

On 03/08/16 11:16, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 26/07/16 17:21, Dario Faggioli wrote:
>> On Mon, 2016-07-25 at 17:12 +0100, Anshul Makkar wrote:
>>> It introduces context-switch rate-limiting. The patch enables the VM
>> The subject, which will become the "title" of the commit, is way too
>> long. That must be a very concise headline of what the patch is about,
>> and should also have tags, specifying what areas of the codebase are
>> affected. So what do you think of this:
>>
>>    xen: credit2: implement context switch rate-limiting.
>
> It looks like it's just missing a carrage return -- I could fix that up
> on check-in.
>
>>
>> On a more technical side, I think that...
>>> +    if ( prv->ratelimit_us )
>>> +    {
>>> +        s_time_t ratelimit_min = prv->ratelimit_us;
>>>
>> ... this should be:
>>
>>   s_time_t ratelimit_min = MICROSECS(prv->ratelimit_us);
>>
>> I realized that by looking at traces and seeing entries for which
>> CSCHED2_MIN_TIMER was being returned, even if I had set
>> sched_ratelimit_us to a value greater than that.
>
> Yes, Dario is correct here.
>
> There's also a small typo in one of the comments ("onw" instead of "own").
>
> With all those changed:
>
> Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
>
> If Anshul and Dario are happy, I can fix all those thing up on commit.
>
Fine with me.
> -George
>
Anshul


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