On 10/04/2012 12:56 PM, Raghavendra K T wrote: > On 10/03/2012 10:55 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 10/03/2012 04:29 PM, Raghavendra K T wrote: >>> * Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com> [2012-09-27 14:03:59]: >>> >>>> On 09/27/2012 01:23 PM, Raghavendra K T wrote: >>>>>> >>> [...] >>>>> 2) looking at the result (comparing A & C) , I do feel we have >>>>> significant in iterating over vcpus (when compared to even vmexit) >>>>> so We still would need undercommit fix sugested by PeterZ >>>>> (improving by >>>>> 140%). ? >>>> >>>> Looking only at the current runqueue? My worry is that it misses a lot >>>> of cases. Maybe try the current runqueue first and then others. >>>> >>> >>> Okay. Do you mean we can have something like >>> >>> + if (rq->nr_running == 1 && p_rq->nr_running == 1) { >>> + yielded = -ESRCH; >>> + goto out_irq; >>> + } >>> >>> in the Peter's patch ? >>> >>> ( I thought lot about && or || . Both seem to have their own cons ). >>> But that should be only when we have short term imbalance, as PeterZ >>> told. >> >> I'm missing the context. What is p_rq? > > p_rq is the run queue of target vcpu. > What I was trying below was to address Rik concern. Suppose > rq of source vcpu has one task, but target probably has two task, > with a eligible vcpu waiting to be scheduled. > >> >> What I mean was: >> >> if can_yield_to_process_in_current_rq >> do that >> else if can_yield_to_process_in_other_rq >> do that >> else >> return -ESRCH > > I think you are saying we have to check the run queue of the > source vcpu, if we have a vcpu belonging to same VM and try yield to > that? ignoring whatever the target vcpu we received for yield_to. > > Or is it that kvm_vcpu_yield_to should now check the vcpus of same vm > belonging to same run queue first. If we don't succeed, go again for > a vcpu in different runqueue.
Right. Prioritize vcpus that are cheap to yield to. But may return bad results if all vcpus on the current runqueue are spinners, so probably not a good idea. > Does it add more overhead especially in <= 1x scenario? The current runqueue should have just our vcpu in that case, so low overhead. But it's a bad idea due to the above scenario. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html