On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 09:56:27AM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:The key here is not to
sleep when waiting for locks (as implemented by current patch-series, which can
put other VMs at an advantage by giving them more time than they are entitled
to)
Why? If a VCPU can't make progress because its waiting for some
resource, then why not schedule something else instead?
In the process, "something else" can get more share of cpu resource than its
entitled to and that's where I was bit concerned. I guess one could
employ hard-limits to cap "something else's" bandwidth where it is of real
concern (like clouds).