Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v6 for Xen 4.7 1/4] xen: enable per-VCPU parameter settings for RTDS scheduler

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 19:09 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 11:55:55AM -0600, Chong Li wrote:
> 
> > +            spin_lock_irqsave(&prv->lock, flags);
> > +            svc = rt_vcpu(d->vcpu[local_sched.vcpuid]);
> > +            svc->period = period;
> > +            svc->budget = budget;
> > +            spin_unlock_irqrestore(&prv->lock, flags);
> > +
> And this locking pattern seems sub-optimal. You might be able to move
> the lock and unlock outside the while loop?
> 
Yes, unless I'm missing something, that looks possible to me, and would
save a lot of acquire/release ping pong on the lock.

And yet, I'm not sure doing (for large guests) batches of 64 iterations
with (as of now) interrupts disabled.

I'll think about this...

Thanks and Regards,
Dario
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