Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function

Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-03T17:45:40Z

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 12:33:29PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >Anyway, the intention of yield() proposed was not to get lock released
> >immediately (which will happen eventually), but rather to avoid inefficiency
> >associated with (long) spinning and at the same time make sure we are not
> >leaking our bandwidth to other guests because of a naive yield ..
>
> A KVM guest can run on the host alongside short-lived
> processes, though. How can we ensure that a VCPU that
> donates time gets it back again later, when the task
> time was donated to may no longer exist?

I think that does not matter. What matters for fairness in this case is how much
cpu time yielding thread gets over some (larger) time window. By ensuring that
relinquished time is fedback, we should maintian fairness for that particular
vcpu thread ..This also avoids nasty interactions associated with donation ..

- vatsa