RE: [Xen-users] present domU with 1 CPU with multiple cores

[Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Salomon
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:30 AM
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> Subject: [Xen-users] present domU with 1 CPU with multiple cores

> However to make sure that Dom0 will always respond even when
> the DomU instances have a high load, I want to keep CPU 0 available
> only for Dom0. Therefore in the DomU config files I'm using the
following
> CPU definition: cpus="1-3". Does it makes sense to do this?
> Or would Xen handle this better on its own?

I think it's a good idea.  If your domU load is CPU-intensive, dom0 may
not need to run often.  However that is often not the case, and each
domU may frequently need to perform either disk or network I/O.  Dom0
needs to be scheduled on an available CPU to complete that I/O, since it
hosts the driver backend.

> Also how do I see on which physical CPU a DomU instance is running?

Take a look at "xm vcpu-list".

-Jeff



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