From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dario Faggioli Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v1 0/3] Enable XL to set and get per-VCPU work conserving flag for RTDS scheduler Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 19:49:48 +0200 Message-ID: <1501696188.19956.12.camel@citrix.com> References: <1501612434-5803-1-git-send-email-mengxu@cis.upenn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5044153508219411113==" Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dcxmn-0000Tl-Hm for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 17:50:21 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1501612434-5803-1-git-send-email-mengxu@cis.upenn.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Meng Xu , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com, wei.liu2@citrix.com, xumengpanda@gmail.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============5044153508219411113== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-0n9MEpM4N8m6xU/S4+Vv" --=-0n9MEpM4N8m6xU/S4+Vv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 14:33 -0400, Meng Xu wrote: > This series of patches enable the toolstack to > set and get per-VCPU work-conserving flag. > With the toolstack, system administrators can decide > which VCPUs will be made work-conserving. >=20 Thanks for this series as well, Meng. I'll look at it in the next couple of days. >=20 > We plan to perform two steps in making RTDS scheduler work- > conserving: > (1) First make all VCPUs work-conserving by default, > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0which was sent as a separate patch. This work aim= s for Xen 4.10 > release. > (2) After that, we enable the XL to set and get per-VCPU work- > conserving flag, > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0which is this series of patches. >=20 I think it's better if you merge the "xen:rtds: towards work conserving RTDS" as patch 1 of this series. In fact, sending them as separate series, you make people think that they're independent, while they're not (as this series is pretty useless, without that patch :-P). Regards, Dario --=20 <> (Raistlin Majere) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK) --=-0n9MEpM4N8m6xU/S4+Vv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABCAAGBQJZghC8AAoJEBZCeImluHPudZQP/R0iMyje/e05BEGv9vsbXjV3 ANVVUfbM653hOx7uEpSlDYix6yS5OwjVrSvA/o+SJjeIFoIbTOcdJ0OyQB2jDw4o X6bI3RbRO0/t+Ff5AelhbpvgpTBRdHBrou9Q7nSriLp6aEt6v8Iartz0Mk/wDVCC U5u0O+zrxQhW8t/NYfGu7haifHdIQqU1n3EMBBQ5PvMco21AkP6SQTn/JZqz8x3R CA9yMUknHjnenz8rpRdmSnIYQM3O+/P7O/O5WnMmwVqBtE++SVQlHswAX9cVeUsb C6NbB6KWMU+X2AILmpUn8BvEYOfrbrwsQebjp3IjLS1F4DTSp3ktkVIfpQXo0Pgg Ubem+SxOEVTseLmNoBT4Dvd+X1FtAVzry//PBTBEdzTuPihMMsU2hkDdGlg1RNrr 1a6PiV+EaKpObZnIJv7xEY5Dmp61g8vogvK8W9BazW6vgURlSp8blUvabMTxMJje yznMtkSL3TrAEEt/AfrWcHB2nDF2c2NYcp/rcEccDzoJljHwJd8ZOQX1rZijXBzA LvhoBeH4GWXaZkuLc9ZUd047coKQuNCB3lLbiHnfpMF3NX08noKBQDSB3VeSYbnJ AJ4a7YWVTdD0+MwkC9CqwnYqTkjPOt/4PG7NbATkxlTjm2dXLsKO1rHfv6aBrD/b 5wiwmQ3SDIcefYidrOQb =rgsr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-0n9MEpM4N8m6xU/S4+Vv-- --===============5044153508219411113== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline X19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX18KWGVuLWRldmVs IG1haWxpbmcgbGlzdApYZW4tZGV2ZWxAbGlzdHMueGVuLm9yZwpodHRwczovL2xpc3RzLnhlbi5v cmcveGVuLWRldmVsCg== --===============5044153508219411113==--