sedf oversubscription

sedf oversubscription

[Diwaker Gupta]

I looked around but haven't found a definitive answer to this on the
mailing list archives -- how does SEDF handle oversubscription? I'm
not using weights at all -- just period/slice specifications for each
domain. So what happens if a user tries to give a specification where
sum(period/slice over all domains) > 1?

Looking at the code it seems that SEDF just *assumes* that the
specification will be valid. Is that correct? Does anyone have a
handle on how the scheduler will behave if an invalid spec is given? I
guess I could just try for myself....

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Multiple I/O domains?

[Rob Gardner]

I'd like to set up a xen system with mutliple I/O domains.

A few questions:

Is this known to work?

Should I use xen 2.0x or xen 3.x to start with. Which has better support 
for multiple I/O domains?

Is there a cookbook someplace for doing this? A quick search didn't 
reveal anything. A few people have already given us some hints, but the 
information is a little too sparse.

Finally, are there some requirements that aren't obvious? For instance, 
I've got a machine with with one disk and one nic. Is that sufficient, 
or do I need additional interfaces? I'd like to be able to have just two 
domains, one controlling the nic, the other disk. Is this possible? It 
seems like dom0 must be the driver domain for its own boot device.

Rob Gardner