On 06/14/2011 07:31 AM, Glauber Costa wrote: > This is a first proposal for using steal time information > to influence the scheduler. There are a lot of optimizations > and fine grained adjustments to be done, but it is working reasonably > so far for me (mostly) > > With this patch (and some host pinnings to demonstrate the situation), > two vcpus with very different steal time (Say 80 % vs 1 %) will not get > an even distribution of processes. This is a situation that can naturally > arise, specially in overcommited scenarios. Previosly, the guest scheduler > would wrongly think that all cpus have the same ability to run processes, > lowering the overall throughput. One typo in the commit log: s/Previosly/Previously -- Best Regards, Asias He -- 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