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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:22:56 +0100
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: response to SIGUSR1 to
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To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:17 -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> Directed yield and fairness don't mix well either. You can end up
> feeding the other tasks more time than you'll ever get back.

If the directed yield is always to another task in your cgroup then
inter-guest scheduling fairness should be maintained.=20

Yes, but not the inter-vcpu fairness.