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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: "De Lara Guarch, Pablo" <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, "Carew, Alan" <alan.carew@intel.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/10] VM Power Management
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:13:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <548B1443.6060706@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6597811.ARdDfzU0XI@xps13>



On 12/12/2014 17:10, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > Ok, this looks specific enough that an out-of-band solution within DPDK
> > sounds like the best approach.  It seems unnecessary to involve the
> > hypervisor (neither KVM nor QEMU).
>
> Paolo, I don't understand why you don't imagine controlling frequency scaling
> of a pinned vCPU transparently?

Probably because I don't imagine controlling frequency scaling from the
application on bare metal, either. :)  It seems to me that this is just
working around limitations of the kernel.

Paolo

> In my understanding, we currently cannot control frequency scaling without
> knowing wether we are in a VM or not.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-12-12 16:14 UTC|newest]

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2014-11-22 17:17           ` [Qemu-devel] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/10] VM Power Management Vincent JARDIN
2014-12-09 17:35             ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-11 23:18               ` [Qemu-devel] [dpdk-dev] " Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-12 13:00                 ` Carew, Alan
2014-12-12 14:50                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-12 16:10                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-12 16:13                       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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