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Message-ID: <4EF99F3A.6070203@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:34:34 +0200
From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, peterz@...radead.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Gang scheduling in CFS
On 12/27/2011 12:10 PM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:51:46 +0200, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> wrote:
> > On 12/27/2011 11:44 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> > > > > I am seeing a drop of ~44% when setting yield_on_hlt = 0
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > A drop of 44% of what?
> > > >
> > > records/sec
> > >
> > > Ebizzy - 2VM running in parallel, both having gang scheduling enabled.
> > >
> > > yield_on_hlt=1 yield_on_hlt=0
> > > EbzyRecords/sec 41955.50 23285.00 -44
> > >
> > >
> >
> > 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.
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