Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: response to SIGUSR1 to start/stop a VCPU (v2)

Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-02T15:44:48Z

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 05:33:40PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> A0 and A1's vruntime will keep growing, eventually B will become
> leftmost and become runnable (assuming leftmost == min vruntime, not
> sure what the terminology is).

Donation (in directed yield) will cause vruntime to drop as well (thats the only
way target can get to run ahead of its scheduled time), so I still think there
are nasty issues involved here.

Anyway, I am curious to see the directed yield implementation that Rik has - I
can comment more after I have seen that!

- vatsa