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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: response to SIGUSR1 to start/stop a VCPU (v2)
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:46:56 -0800
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* Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl) wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:17 -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> > Directed yield and fairness don't mix well either. You can end up
> > feeding the other tasks more time than you'll ever get back.
> 
> If the directed yield is always to another task in your cgroup then
> inter-guest scheduling fairness should be maintained. 
> 
> Yes, but not the inter-vcpu fairness.

That same vcpu doesn't get fair scheduling if it spends its entire
timeslice spinning on a lock held by a de-scheduled vcpu.