From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Gang scheduling in CFS
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:31:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1325712710.3084.10.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F04898B.1080600@redhat.com>
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 19:16 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>
> I think we can solve it at the guest level. The paravirt ticketlock
> stuff introduces wait/wake calls (actually wait is just a HLT
> instruction); we could spin for a while, then HLT until the other side
> wakes us. We should do this for all sites that busy wait.
>
This is all TLB invalidates, right?
So why wait for non-running vcpus at all? That is, why not paravirt the
TLB flush such that the invalidate marks the non-running VCPU's state so
that on resume it will first flush its TLBs. That way you don't have to
wake it up and wait for it to invalidate its TLBs.
Or am I like totally missing the point (I am after all reading the
thread backwards and I haven't yet fully paged the kernel stuff back
into my brain).
I guess tagging remote VCPU state like that might be somewhat tricky..
but it seems worth considering, the whole wake and wait for flush thing
seems daft.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-04 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-19 8:33 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Gang scheduling in CFS Nikunj A. Dadhania
2011-12-19 8:34 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] sched: Adding cpu.gang file to cpu cgroup Nikunj A. Dadhania
2011-12-19 8:34 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] sched: Adding gang scheduling infrastrucure Nikunj A. Dadhania
2011-12-19 15:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-19 16:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-20 1:43 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-20 1:39 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-19 8:34 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] sched: Gang using set_next_buddy Nikunj A. Dadhania
2011-12-19 8:35 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] sched:Implement set_gang_buddy Nikunj A. Dadhania
2011-12-19 15:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-20 1:43 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-26 2:30 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-19 11:23 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Gang scheduling in CFS Ingo Molnar
2011-12-19 11:44 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-19 11:50 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-19 11:59 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-19 12:06 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-19 12:50 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-19 13:09 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-19 11:45 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-19 13:22 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-19 16:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 10:39 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-21 10:43 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-23 3:20 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-23 10:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-25 10:58 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-25 15:45 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-26 3:14 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-26 9:05 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-26 11:33 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-26 11:41 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-27 1:47 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-27 9:15 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-27 10:24 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-27 3:15 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-27 9:17 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-27 9:44 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-27 9:51 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-27 10:10 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-27 10:34 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-27 10:43 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-27 10:53 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-30 9:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-30 10:10 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-31 2:21 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2012-01-02 4:20 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2012-01-02 9:39 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-02 10:22 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2012-01-02 9:37 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-02 10:30 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2012-01-02 13:33 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-04 10:52 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2012-01-04 14:41 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-04 14:56 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-04 17:13 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-05 6:57 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2012-01-04 16:47 ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-04 17:16 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-04 20:56 ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-04 21:31 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-01-04 21:41 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-05 9:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-20 8:08 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2012-02-20 8:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-20 10:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-20 11:53 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2012-02-20 12:02 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-20 12:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-05 2:10 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-19 15:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-19 16:09 ` Alan Cox
2011-12-19 22:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-12-20 1:56 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2011-12-20 8:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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