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RE: [Xen-devel] Credit scheduler anamoly

To: "Atsushi SAKAI" <sakaia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Credit scheduler anamoly
From: "Padala, Pradeep" <pradeep.padala@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:42:44 -0600
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Credit scheduler anamoly
What kind of configuration do you need ? CPU type, kernel etc ?

Pradeep 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Atsushi SAKAI [mailto:sakaia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:35 PM
> To: Padala, Pradeep; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Credit scheduler anamoly
> 
> Hi , Paradeep.
> 
> Thank you for your log. and your report seems to be interesting.
> Please notice me the configuration of your measurement.
> (it seems different config to your mail.)
> 
> Anyway, credit scheduler default slice is 30msec.
> and 1msec is the credit unit.
> 4% is close to 1/30. 
> CPU intensive jobs are running 30msec at once.
> Under this environment, this job seems to run every 900msec(30*30).
> (Close to 1sec)
> 
> For this environment I want to see 100sec avarage.
> (But currently enough by your report)
> 
> Anyway thank you for your report.
> If you give me a configuration, I will checking on this.
> 
> Thanks
> Atsushi SAKAI
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >> The cap effects for avarage not one time.
> >> Please send xentop -b (batch) log file.
> >
> >What do you mean by average ? I am actually measuring the CPU times 
> >every 10 secs in my program. I believe Xentop averages it 
> over 3 secs.
> >Isn't that long enough time to cap correctly ?
> >
> >A copy of xentop -b is at http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~ppadala/out.
> >I set the caps to 4% and 96% and in the first VM, I ran a CPU eater 
> >which is basically
> >
> >do {;} {while(1)}
> >
> >I can run it for a longer period if you want.
> >
> >Pradeep
> > 
> >> >I sent the following mail without subscribing to the list,
> >> and I am not
> >> >sure whether the list accepts mails from non-members. I just
> >> subscribed
> >> >and re-sending the mail. I apologize if you receive 
> multiple copies.
> >> >
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >I am using the credit scheduler in the xen-unstable trunk 
> and I am 
> >> >trying to set a cap on the container CPU entitlement. I have
> >> two VMs and
> >> >two CPUs. The two VMs are restricted to one CPU using the 
> command xm 
> >> >vcpu-pin. Now, I want to cap the container CPU consumption
> >> say to 4% and
> >> >26% of the ONE CPU.
> >> >
> >> >So, I use the following commands.
> >> >
> >> >xm sched-credit -d 73 -c 4
> >> >xm sched-credit -d 74 -c 26
> >> >
> >> >When I run Xentop, I see this
> >> >
> >> >apache.padalap.1 ------         83    7.0 ...
> >> >apache.padalap.2 -----r        154   25.5 ...
> >> >
> >> >How is this possible when I cap the first VM to 4% ? Am I
> >> missing some
> >> >thing ? Does credit scheduler fail to enforce small caps ? 
> >> Note that I
> >> >haven't changed the weights and they are set to default 256 each.
> >> >
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >Pradeep
> >> >
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