From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] kvm-scheduler integration Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:30:06 +0200 Message-ID: <20070710113006.GA21053@elte.hu> References: <11838994974161-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com> <20070708133539.GA12597@elte.hu> <4690E973.7000606@qumranet.com> <20070708134850.GB22911@elte.hu> <4690EC47.6060904@qumranet.com> <20070708135905.GA24991@elte.hu> <46936AF2.9010400@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46936AF2.9010400-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org * Avi Kivity wrote: > How do you feel about some variant of this going into 2.6.23-rc1? I > initially thought of this as a 2.6.24 thing, but as it now looks > solid, maybe we can hurry things along. yeah, fine by me. You were working on a more generic patch, right? I think a good approach would be an atomic notifier chain. > If Shaohua ports his spinlock->mutex convertion to the sched branch, > we get some real benefits: > > - reduced latencies for desktop users > - less kvm patches to carry in -rt (maybe none?) yeah, and i think we can reach 'none'. Ingo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/