Chris Friesen wrote:
Avi Kivity wrote:
I am selling virtual private servers. A 10% cpu share costs $x/month,
and I guarantee you'll get that 10%, or your money back. On the other
hand, I want to limit cpu usage to that 10% (maybe a little more) so
people don't buy 10% shares and use 100% on my underutilized servers.
If they want 100%, let them pay for 100%.
What about taking a page from the networking folks and specifying cpu
like a networking SLA?
Something like "group A is guaranteed X percent (or share) of the cpu,
but it is allowed to burst up to Y percent for Z milliseconds"
If a rule of this form was the first-class citizen, it would provide
both guarantees, limits, and flexible behaviour.
I think you're introducing a new control (guarantees, limits, burst
limit), but I like it.
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