From: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: Dario Faggioli <faggioli@gandalf.sssup.it>,
Dhaval Giani <dhaval@retis.sssup.it>,
Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it>,
riel@redhat.com, Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Avi Kiviti <avi@redhat.com>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [RFC -v3 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function]
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:38:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D23AF8A.6080306@sssup.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294164920.6169.199.camel@Palantir>
Il 04/01/2011 19:15, Dario Faggioli ha scritto:
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Peter Zijlstra<a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> To: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Hillf Danton<dhillf@gmail.com>,kvm@vger.kernel.org,
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kiviti<avi@redhat.com>, Srivatsa
> Vaddagiri<vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Mike Galbraith<efault@gmx.de>,
> Chris Wright<chrisw@sous-sol.org>
> Subject: Re: [RFC -v3 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function
> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:05:54 +0100
> RT guests don't make sense, there's nowhere near enough infrastructure
> for that to work well.
>
> I'd argue that KVM running with RT priority is a bug.
Peter, can I ask why did you state that ? In the IRMOS project, we
are just deploying KVM VMs by using the Fabio's real-time scheduler
(for others, a.k.a., the Fabio's EDF throttling patch, or IRMOS RT
scheduler)
in order to let the VMs get precise CPU scheduling guarantees by the
kernel. So, in this context we do have KVM running at RT priority, and
we do have experimental results showing how this can improve stability
of performance of the hosted guest VMs.
Of course, don't misunderstand me: this is a necessary condition for a
stable performance of KVM VMs, I'm not saying it is sufficient for
--
Tommaso Cucinotta, Computer Engineering PhD, Researcher
ReTiS Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
Tel +39 050 882 024, Fax +39 050 882 003
http://retis.sssup.it/people/tommaso
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2011-01-04 23:38 ` Tommaso Cucinotta [this message]
2011-01-04 23:40 ` [Fwd: Re: [RFC -v3 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function] Tommaso Cucinotta
2011-01-05 9:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-06 13:28 ` Hillf Danton
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