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From: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] mitigate the per-pCPU blocking list may be too long
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 11:30:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170426033050.GA77987@skl-2s3.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5900742A020000780015441D@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 02:19:22AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 26.04.17 at 02:52, <chao.gao@intel.com> wrote:
>> Patch 2/4 randomly distritbutes entries (vCPUs) among all oneline
>> pCPUs, which can theoretically decrease the maximum of #entry
>> in the list by N times. N is #pCPU.
>
>Why randomly? Shouldn't current list length determine which CPU(s)
>to prefer?

I thought randomly distribution is simple and also can meet our
demand.  What you said I think is also ok. How about just choose the
CPU which has the shortest list length? I will use this policy in next
version. Will you review this version when you have time? or I can
prepare and send next version directly?

Regarding to the test I do, any other complementary tests do you
think are needed to prove that these patches really mitigate the
issue?

Thanks
Chao

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-26  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-26  0:52 [PATCH 0/4] mitigate the per-pCPU blocking list may be too long Chao Gao
2017-04-26  0:52 ` [PATCH 1/4] xentrace: add TRC_HVM_VT_D_PI_BLOCK Chao Gao
2017-04-26  0:52 ` [PATCH 2/4] VT-d PI: Randomly Distribute entries to all online pCPUs' pi blocking list Chao Gao
2017-04-26  0:52 ` [PATCH 3/4] VT-d PI: Add reference count to pi_desc Chao Gao
2017-04-26  0:52 ` [PATCH 4/4] VT-d PI: Don't add vCPU to PI blocking list for a case Chao Gao
2017-04-26  8:19 ` [PATCH 0/4] mitigate the per-pCPU blocking list may be too long Jan Beulich
2017-04-26  3:30   ` Chao Gao [this message]
2017-04-26 10:52     ` Jan Beulich
2017-04-26 16:39 ` George Dunlap
2017-04-27  0:43   ` Chao Gao
2017-04-27  9:44     ` George Dunlap
2017-04-27  5:02       ` Chao Gao
2017-05-02  5:45   ` Chao Gao
2017-05-03 10:08     ` George Dunlap
2017-05-03 10:21       ` Jan Beulich
2017-05-08 16:15         ` Chao Gao
2017-05-08  8:39           ` Jan Beulich
2017-05-08 16:38             ` Chao Gao
2017-05-08  9:13           ` George Dunlap
2017-05-08  9:24             ` Jan Beulich
2017-05-08 17:37               ` Chao Gao

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