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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 44/49] xen: round up max vcpus to scheduling granularity
- To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 11:47:59 +0200
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- Delivery-date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:48:16 +0000
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On 01/04/2019 10:50, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 29/03/2019 15:09, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> Make sure the number of vcpus is always a multiple of the scheduling
>> granularity. Note that we don't support a scheduling granularity above
>> one on ARM.
>
> I'm afraid that I don't think this is a clever move. In turn, this
> brings into question the approach to idle handling.
>
> Firstly, with a proposed socket granularity, this would be 128 on some
> systems which exist today. Furthermore, consider the case where
> cpupool0 has a granularity of 1, and a second pool has a granularity of
> 2. A domain can be created with an odd number of vcpus and operate in
> pool0 fine, but can't now be moved to pool1.
For now granularity is the same for all pools, but I plan to enhance
that in future.
The answer to that problem might be either to allow for later addition
of dummy vcpus (e.g. by sizing only the vcpu pointer array to the needed
number), or to really disallow moving such a domain between pools.
> If at all possible, I think it would be better to try and reuse the idle
> cpus for holes like this. Seeing as you've been playing with this code
> a lot, what is your assessment?
This would be rather complicated. I'd either need to switch vcpus
dynamically in schedule items, or I'd need to special case the idle
vcpus in _lots_ of places.
Juergen
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