Re: [PATCH 0 of 5] Add credit2 scheduler (EXPERIMENTAL)

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>]

The patches are already available from the staging tree. They will get
automatically pushed to the main tree when they pass the regression tests.

 K.


On 14/04/2010 15:29, "George Dunlap" <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:

> Keir has checked the patches in, so if you wait a bit, they should show
> up on the public repository.
> 
> The tool patch is only necessary for adjusting the weight; if you're OK
> using the default weight, just adding "sched=credit2" on the xen
> command-line should be fine.
> 
> Don't forget that this isn't meant to perform well on multiple sockets
> yet. :-)
> 
>  -George
> 
> Dan Magenheimer wrote:
>> Hi George --
>> 
>> I'm seeing some problems applying the patches (such as "malformed
>> patch").  If you could send me a monolithic patch in an attachment
>> and tell me what cset in http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg
>> that it successfully applies against, I will try to give my
>> workload a test against it to see if it has the same
>> symptoms.
>> 
>> Also, do I need to apply the tools patch if I don't intend
>> to specify any parameters, or is the xen patch + "sched=credit2"
>> in a boot param sufficient?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>> 
>>   
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: George Dunlap [mailto:george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 4:26 AM
>>> To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>>> Cc: george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com
>>> Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 5] Add credit2 scheduler
>>> (EXPERIMENTAL)
>>> 
>>> This patch series introduces the credit2 scheduler.  The first two
>>> patches
>>> introduce changes necessary to allow the credit2 shared runqueue
>>> functionality
>>> to work properly; the last two implement the functionality itself.
>>> 
>>> The scheduler is still in the experimental phase.  There's lots of
>>> opportunity to contribute with independent lines of development; email
>>> George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com> or check out the wiki page
>>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Credit2_Scheduler_Development for
>>> ideas
>>> and status updates.
>>> 
>>> 19 files changed, 1453 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>>> tools/libxc/Makefile                      |    1
>>> tools/libxc/xc_csched2.c                  |   50 +
>>> tools/libxc/xenctrl.h                     |    8
>>> tools/python/xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c         |   58 +
>>> tools/python/xen/xend/XendAPI.py          |    3
>>> tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomain.py       |   54 +
>>> tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py   |    4
>>> tools/python/xen/xend/XendNode.py         |    4
>>> tools/python/xen/xend/XendVMMetrics.py    |    1
>>> tools/python/xen/xend/server/SrvDomain.py |   14
>>> tools/python/xen/xm/main.py               |   82 ++
>>> xen/arch/ia64/vmx/vmmu.c                  |    6
>>> xen/common/Makefile                       |    1
>>> xen/common/sched_credit.c                 |    8
>>> xen/common/sched_credit2.c                | 1125
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> xen/common/schedule.c                     |   22
>>> xen/include/public/domctl.h               |    4
>>> xen/include/public/trace.h                |    1
>>> xen/include/xen/sched-if.h                |   28
>>> 
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