On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 12:49 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 12/20/2010 12:46 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > However, if I'm all alone on my cpu, and the other task is runnable but > > > not running, behind some unrelated task, then I do need that task to be > > > preempted (or to move tasks around). > > > > So in that case, a pull may be advantageous. > > Yes. > > > > > Would a kick/hint option be useful? > > > > > > Depends on what it does... > > > > Let you decide whether you only want to drop a hint and leave it at > > that, or also attempt a preemption. > > Who is "you" in this? the scheduler?
The caller. > I'm fine with hints so long as they are usually acted upon (if it isn't, > I'll go back to the guest, spin a bit more, and retry). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
