Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] sched: throttle cfs_rq entities which exceedtheir local quota

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Thu Oct 14 2010 - 19:36:09 EST


On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:41:44 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 03:25 -0700, Paul Turner wrote:
> > > "When vcpu holds spinlock in kernel, please don't sleep.." will be nice.
> > > Is there patch already ?
>
> Oh you're talking about the guest spinlock crap?

yes ;)

> I don't particularly care about that.. that's a virt problem you see ;-)

Hmm. AFAIK, all qemu's thread will be under a cgroup. So, I'll be happy if
a vcpu is on a loop to wait for spinlock yields immediately...But I'm not
famliar with this area, either. Thanks.

-Kame

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