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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Scheduler work, part 1: High-level goals and interface.


  • To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
  • From: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:54:29 +0100
  • Cc: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This can probably be extended to Intel's hyper-dynamic flux mode (that may
> not be the real marketing name), where it can overclock one core if the
> other is idle.

Jeremy,

Did you mean we could expose an entire socket to a guest VM, so that
it could schedule so as to take advantage of the effects of Turbo
Boost, just as we can expose thread pairs to a VM and let the guest OS
scheduler deal with threading issues?

 -George

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