On 12/02/2010 09:14 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
Perhaps it should be a VM level option. And then invert the notion. Create one idle domain w/out hlt trap. Give that VM a vcpu per pcpu (pin in place probably). And have that VM do nothing other than hlt. Then it's always runnable according to scheduler, and can "consume" the extra work that CFS wants to give away.
What's the difference between this and the Linux idle threads? -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. -- 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
