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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, chrisw@sous-sol.org, avi@qumranet.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] RFC: vcpu pinning at qemu start
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:42:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47CD8A02.50402@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12046477213193-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com>

Glauber Costa wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Here's a first series of patch aiming at vcpu pinning support in qemu.
> Ideally, as vcpu as just normal threads, the usual userspace tools can be used
> to set cpu affinities mask.
>
> However, It makes it very difficult to _start_ a vm with vcpus pinned, since
> we don't know the thread ids from qemu in advance, nor do we know when are the
> vcpus created.
>
> The patches introduce a -cpu-map option, that, if specified, starts the virtual cpus
> with the specified affinities.
>
> Comments? Welcome. Random rants? Not welcome, but... how can I stop you? So go ahead!
>
>   

So why exactly is this useful?  I have a hard time constructing a 
reasonable use-case in my mind for something like this.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-04 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-04 16:21 [PATCH 0/8] RFC: vcpu pinning at qemu start Glauber Costa
2008-03-04 16:21 ` [PATCH 1/8] add thread id to vcpu structure Glauber Costa
2008-03-04 16:21   ` [PATCH 2/8] provide a gettid function Glauber Costa
2008-03-04 16:21     ` [PATCH 3/8] get thread id at thread's creation Glauber Costa
2008-03-04 16:21       ` [PATCH 4/8] store and set cpu affinities Glauber Costa
2008-03-04 16:21         ` [PATCH 5/8] initialize affinities Glauber Costa
2008-03-04 16:21           ` [PATCH 6/8] stabilish default affinity for newly created cpus Glauber Costa
2008-03-04 16:22             ` [PATCH 7/8] process a cpu affinity mask Glauber Costa
2008-03-04 16:22               ` [PATCH 8/8] provide -cpu-map option Glauber Costa
2008-03-04 17:26 ` [PATCH 0/8] RFC: vcpu pinning at qemu start Joerg Roedel
2008-03-04 18:11   ` Glauber Costa
2008-03-04 18:19     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-03-04 17:42 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-03-04 18:10   ` Glauber Costa
2008-03-04 19:28     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-04 19:42       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-03-04 20:00         ` Glauber Costa
2008-03-04 19:59       ` Glauber Costa
2008-03-05  3:43         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-05  6:44           ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-05 13:10           ` Glauber Costa
2008-03-05  5:35       ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-05 14:29         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-05  5:28 ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-05 13:13   ` Glauber Costa

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