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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kiviti <avi@redhat.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	ttracy@redhat.com, dshaks@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC -v5 PATCH 0/4] directed yield for Pause Loop Exiting
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:34:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D30891B.9010104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110114030209.53765a0a@annuminas.surriel.com>

On 01/14/2011 03:02 AM, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Benchmark "results":
>
> Two 4-CPU KVM guests are pinned to the same 4 physical CPUs.

I just discovered that I had in fact pinned the 4-CPU KVM
guests to 4 HT threads across 2 cores, and the scheduler
has all kinds of special magic for dealing with HT siblings.

I am now rerunning the tests with the KVM guests bound to
cores 0,2,4,6 to see if that makes a difference.

-- 
All rights reversed

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-14 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-14  8:02 [RFC -v5 PATCH 0/4] directed yield for Pause Loop Exiting Rik van Riel
2011-01-14  8:03 ` [RFC -v5 PATCH 1/4] kvm: keep track of which task is running a KVM vcpu Rik van Riel
2011-01-16 15:17   ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-14  8:03 ` [RFC -v5 PATCH 2/4] sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality Rik van Riel
2011-01-14 17:15   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-14 17:47   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-01-14 18:29     ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-17 15:53       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-01-14  8:04 ` [RFC -v5 PATCH 3/4] export pid symbols needed for kvm_vcpu_on_spin Rik van Riel
2011-01-16 15:18   ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-14  8:05 ` [RFC -v5 PATCH 4/4] kvm: use yield_to instead of sleep in kvm_vcpu_on_spin Rik van Riel
2011-01-14 17:34 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2011-01-14 21:29 ` [RFC -v5 PATCH 0/4] directed yield for Pause Loop Exiting Rik van Riel

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