Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus

[Avi Kivity]

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 06:57:38PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
> > What if the guest sends N packets, then does some expensive computation  
> > (say the guest scheduler switches from the benchmark process to  
> > evolution).  So now we have the marker set at packet N, but the host  
> > will not see it until the guest timeslice is up?
> >     
>
> Well that's fine.  The guest will use up the remainder of its
> timeslice.  After all we only have one core/hyperthread here so
> this is no different than if the packets were held up higher up
> in the guest kernel and the guest decided to do some computation.
>
>   

3ms latency for ping?

(ping will always be scheduled immediately when the reply arrives if I 
understand cfs, so guest load won't delay it)

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