Re: [RFC -v3 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function

[Rik van Riel]

On 01/12/2011 10:26 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 22:02 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > Cgroups only makes the matter worse - libvirt places
> > each KVM guest into its own cgroup, so a VCPU will
> > generally always be alone on its own per-cgroup, per-cpu
> > runqueue!  That can lead to pulling a VCPU onto our local
> > CPU because we think we are alone, when in reality we
> > share the CPU with others...
>
> How can that happen?  If the task you're trying to accelerate isn't in
> your task group, the whole attempt should be a noop.

Nono, all the VCPUs from the same guest are in the same
cgroup.  However, with 4 VCPUs and 4 physical CPUs,
chances are that they're all alone on their own per-cpu,
per-cgroup cfs_rq.

However, each CPU might have other runnable processes in
other cfs_rq sched entities.

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