Re: [RFC]PLE's performance enhancement through improving scheduler.

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>]

On 18/08/2010 06:51, "Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> wrote:

> The attached patch is just for RFC, not for check-in. Recently, we are working
> on enhancing the hardware feature PLE through improving scheduler in Xen, and
> the attached patch can improve system's throughput significantly. With
> standand virtualization benchmark(vConsolidate), the testing result shows
> ~20% performance gain.   In the implemenation, there are two points to enhance
> the system's scheduler.
> The first one is that when PLE vmexit occurs,  scheduler de-schedules the vcpu
> and put it in the second position of the runq instead of moving it to the tail
> of runq so that it can be re-scheduled in a very short time. In this case, it
> can improve scheduler's faireness and make the PLE-senstive guests allocated
> with reasonable timeslice.  The other improvement is to boost other vcpus'
> priority of the same guest through moving them to the head of the runq when
> PLE vmexit happens with one vcpu of the guest.  And we are also improving the
> implementation to make it more robust and more pervasive, but before the work
> is done, we also want to collect your guys' ideas and suggestions about it ?
> Any comment is very appreciated!. Thanks!
> Xiantao

Please Cc George Dunlap on scheduler work.

 -- Keir