Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] KVM-GST: adjust scheduler cpu power

[Eric B Munson]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Glauber Costa wrote:

> This is a first proposal for using steal time information
> to influence the scheduler. There are a lot of optimizations
> and fine grained adjustments to be done, but it is working reasonably
> so far for me (mostly)
> 
> With this patch (and some host pinnings to demonstrate the situation),
> two vcpus with very different steal time (Say 80 % vs 1 %) will not get
> an even distribution of processes. This is a situation that can naturally
> arise, specially in overcommited scenarios. Previosly, the guest scheduler
> would wrongly think that all cpus have the same ability to run processes,
> lowering the overall throughput.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxx>

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