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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: response to SIGUSR1 to
	start/stop a VCPU (v2)
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 11:17:52AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> What I'd like to see in directed yield is donating exactly the
> amount of vruntime that's needed to make the target thread run.  The

How would that work well with hard-limits? The target thread would have been
rate limited and no amount of vruntime donation would make it work
"immediately" ..

- vatsa