Re: Re: Re: EEVDF/vhost regression (bisected to 86bfbb7ce4f6 sched/fair: Add lag based placement)

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Dec 12 2023 - 11:15:15 EST


On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 11:00:12AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 12:54 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 03:26:46PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > Try reducing the VHOST_NET_WEIGHT limit and see if that improves things any?
> > >
> > > Or a dirty hack like cond_resched() in translate_desc().
> >
> > what do you mean, exactly?
>
> Ideally it should not matter, but Tobias said there's an unexpectedly
> long time spent on translate_desc() which may indicate that the
> might_sleep() or other doesn't work for some reason.
>
> Thanks

You mean for debugging, add it with a patch to see what this does?

Sure - can you post the debugging patch pls?

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