Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Gang scheduling in CFS

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/27/2011 12:43 PM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> > > > Interesting, are you overcommitting vcpus?
> > > > 
> > > Yes(1:2). On a 8cpu machine, have 2VMs running, which is 8vcpus each.
> > 
> > Ah, yield_on_hlt=0 isn't any good with overcommit.  The vcpu stays
> > scheduled when idle, so other vcpus don't get to use its cpu time.
> > 
> This is similar to booting the guest with idle=poll kernel parameter?

Yes, only with lower power consumption.

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