On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:29:52PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > >I am not sure whether we are meeting that objective via this patch, as > >lock-spinning vcpu would simply yield after setting next buddy to preferred > >vcpu on target pcpu, thereby leaking some amount of bandwidth on the pcpu > >where it is spinning. > > Have you read the patch?
Sorry had mis-read the patch! On reviewing it further, I am wondering if we can optimize yield_to() further for case when target and current are on same pcpu, by swapping vruntimes of two tasks (to let target run in current's place - as we do in task_fork_fair()). - vatsa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
