Re: [PATCH 2 of 2] Avoid vcpu migration of paused vcpus

[Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>]

On 03/22/2012 11:12 AM, Keir Fraser wrote:
> Your original patch didn't touch this code. Was that an omission in the
> original version? On reflection I prefer your original patch to this new
> approach. I'll apply it if you still believe your original patch is complete
> and correct as it stands.

I like my second patch more :-)

It covers more cases, not just poweroff. In hibernate case no vcpu pinnings
will be lost. Today all vcpus pinned to a cpu other than 0 will lose their
pinnings at cpu offlining. At reactivation those pinnings will not be
restored automatically. My patch will cover that by checking availability
of the cpus after reactivation.

Poweroff (which was my primary concern) works with both versions. I did not
test other ACPI state changes with either version, but would expect better
results in hibernate case with my second approach.


Juergen

>   -- Keir
>
> On 22/03/2012 08:22, "Juergen Gross"<juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>  wrote:
>
>> Currently offlining a cpu will migrate all vcpus which were active on that
>> cpu to another one, possibly breaking existing cpu affinities.
>>
>> In case of an ACPI state change the cpus are taken offline and online later
>> (if not poweroff) while all domains are paused. There is no reason to
>> migrate the vcpus during offlining the cpus, as the cpus will be available
>> again when the domains are being unpaused.
>>
>> This patch defers the migration check in case of paused vcpus or domains
>> by adding vcpu_arouse() to wake up a vcpu and check whether it must be
>> migrated to another cpu.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross<juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>
>>
>>
>> 3 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>> xen/common/domain.c     |    4 +-
>> xen/common/schedule.c   |   83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>> xen/include/xen/sched.h |    1
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Xen-devel mailing list
>> Xen-devel@lists.xen.org
>> http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-devel mailing list
> Xen-devel@lists.xen.org
> http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
>
>


-- 
Juergen Gross                 Principal Developer Operating Systems
PDG ES&S SWE OS6                       Telephone: +49 (0) 89 3222 2967
Fujitsu Technology Solutions              e-mail: juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com
Domagkstr. 28                           Internet: ts.fujitsu.com
D-80807 Muenchen                 Company details: ts.fujitsu.com/imprint.html