Re: [Qemu-devel] [question] Is there a plan to introduce a unified co-scheduling mechanism to CFS ?

[Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>]

于 10/10/14, 7:37 PM, Zhang Haoyu 写道:
> Hi,
>
> Is it worthy to introduce a unified co-scheduling mechanism to CFS ?
> Because multiple cooperating threads or tasks frequently synchronize 
> with each other,
> not executing them concurrently would only increase the latency of 
> synchronization.
> For example, a thread blocking in spinlock to waiting for another 
> thread to release the same spinlock
> might reduce its waiting time by being executed concurrently with the 
> thread which hold the same spinlock.
> In virtualization scenario, multiple vcpus (which belong to the same 
> vm) co-scheduling is more desired
> when several cooperating threads/task is running in guest.
>
> Is there a plane for this work?

Please refer to gang scheduler.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li

>
> Thanks,
> Zhang Haoyu
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