Re: [Xen-devel] Question about the ability of credit scheduler to handle I/O and CPU intensive VMs

[Yuehai Xu <yuehaixu@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Your understanding of Xen is not correct.  In Xen, the VM itself will
> initiate blocking if there is nothing for it to do.  PV domains call
> SCHED_OP_block(), which will cause the VM to block until it is woken
> by an event channel; and HVM domains will execute the HLT instruction,
> which will cause the VM to block until it is woken by an interrupt.
>
> If you do a more complete trace (i.e., "xentrace -e all") and look at
> the results with xenalyze, you'll see dom2 making a sched_op
> hypercall, then transitioning from RUNSTATE_running to
> RUNSTATE_blocked.
>

I originally considered that when a Dom has an I/O event, its VCPU
would be waken up, in another word, csched_vcpu_wake(struct vcpu *vc)
should be invoked. However, I find I am definitely wrong. As long as
there is a CPU intensive program running in a Dom, this Dom should
never be in a state of "sleep"? In another word, it should never be
waken up?

In such case, suppose there is an I/O event for a VM, how can I insert
this VM schedule entity into the head of the link list and make
schedule() work immediately? I tried in the function of
csched_vcpu_wake, but since this VM also has CPU intensive program,
the throughput of I/O makes no difference.

I feel that in order to make VM that has I/O scheduled as soon as
possible(without considering CPU fairness), other files should be
modified besides csched_credit.c. But where it is?

I really appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Yuehai

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