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[Xen-devel] Interrupts to dom0



I'd like to understand the behavior of a guest domain receiving and answering a ping, while competing with other guest domains for the CPU.

Using xentrace, I've found that when an interrupt on the network interface comes in, the scheduler is pretty good about waking and scheduling the ping receiving domain next. However, once the ping receiving domain blocks, the scheduler often allows other guest domains to run before scheduling domain 0 again. Domain 0 is not woken and, thus, does not get its priority boosted.

My main question is whether domain-0 operates strictly by polling, rather than by virtual interrupts, in this scenario.

Thanks,
Diego Ongaro
Rice University

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