On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 05:17:00PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > Just was wondering how this would work in case of buggy guests. Lets say that a > guest ran into a AB<->BA deadlock. VCPU0 spins on lock B (held by VCPU1 > currently), while VCPU spins on lock A (held by VCPU0 currently). Both keep > boosting each other's vruntime, potentially affecting fairtime for other guests > (to the point of starving them perhaps)? Guests that exhibit strong spinlock contentions can cause similar symptoms as well? - vatsa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
