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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] only set scheduler timer for non-idle CPU
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keir Fraser [mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 9:19 PM
>To: Keir Fraser; Thomas Pfeuffer; Yu, Ke; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] only set scheduler timer for non-idle CPU
>
>On 02/04/2009 14:06, "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> I think your patch is not good in case sedf-scheduler is used. If idle VCPU
>>> is the current "running" VCPU, the scheduler timer is set to the next
>>> "period
>>> begin" of the first VCPU in the wait queue.
>>> Your patch prevents sedf from taking the VCPUs waiting for their next period
>>> into the runnable queue again.
I did not look into the much detail of the sedf-scheduler when making this
patch. thanks for pointing it out, Thomas.
>>
>> It¹s probably cleaner always to respect the specific scheduler¹s scheduling
>> quantum in schedule.c, but then have sched_credit.c return a very large
>> quantum (large as possible) for the idle VCPU.
>
>I checked in something to this effect as c/s 19500.
>
> -- Keir
>
This change looks good to me. Thanks.
Best Regards
Ke
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