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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Subject: Re: [RFC] CPU hard limits
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:09:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A28A882.8070503@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090605044946.GA11755@balbir.in.ibm.com>

Balbir Singh wrote:

> But then there is no other way to make a *guarantee*, guarantees come
> at a cost of idling resources, no? Can you show me any other
> combination that will provide the guarantee and without idling the
> system for the specified guarantees?

The example given was two 10% guaranteed groups and one best-effort
group.  Why would this require idling resources?

If I have a hog in each group, the requirements would be met if the
groups got 33, 33, and 33.  (Or 10/10/80, for that matter.)  If the
second and third groups go idle, why not let the first group use 100% of
the cpu?

The only hard restriction is that the sum of the guarantees must be less
than 100%.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-05  5:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-04  5:36 [RFC] CPU hard limits Bharata B Rao
2009-06-04 12:19 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-04 21:32   ` Mike Waychison
2009-06-05  3:03   ` Bharata B Rao
2009-06-05  3:33     ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-05  4:37       ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-05  4:44         ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-05  4:49           ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-05  5:09             ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2009-06-05  5:13               ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-05  5:10             ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-05  5:21               ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-05  5:27                 ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-05  5:31                   ` Bharata B Rao
2009-06-05  6:01                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-05  8:16                       ` Bharata B Rao
2009-06-07  6:04                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-07 16:14                           ` Bharata B Rao
2009-06-05  9:39                       ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-05 13:14                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-05 13:42                           ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-07  6:09                             ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-05 14:54                           ` Chris Friesen
2009-06-07  6:10                             ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-05  9:24                     ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-05  6:03                   ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-05  6:32                     ` Bharata B Rao
2009-06-05 12:57                       ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-05  5:16             ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-05  5:20               ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-05  3:07   ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-05  8:53 ` Paul Menage
2009-06-05  9:27   ` Bharata B Rao
2009-06-05  9:32     ` Paul Menage
2009-06-05  9:48       ` Dhaval Giani
2009-06-05  9:51         ` Paul Menage
2009-06-05  9:59           ` Dhaval Giani
2009-06-05 10:03             ` Paul Menage
2009-06-08  8:50               ` Pavel Emelyanov
2009-06-05  9:36   ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-05  9:48     ` Paul Menage
2009-06-05  9:55       ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-05  9:57         ` Paul Menage
2009-06-05 10:02         ` Paul Menage
2009-06-05 11:32   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2009-06-05 12:18     ` Paul Menage
2009-06-07 10:11       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2009-06-07 15:35         ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-08  4:37           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2009-06-05 14:44     ` Chris Friesen
2009-06-05 13:02   ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-05 13:43     ` Dhaval Giani
2009-06-05 14:45       ` Chris Friesen
2009-06-05  9:02 ` Reinhard Tartler

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