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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Scheduling of I/O domains
G. Milos wrote:
To target the unfairness I am developing a modification of BVT (I called
it Fair Borrowed Virtual Time [FBVT]). You can enable it by supplying
"sched=fbvt" command to Xen at the startup. The scheduler is under
development and it needs some tweaking to get the best performance (that
is what I am working on at the moment). It would be very helpful if you
could email me with the results of your tests for FBVT.
I tried booting xen with "sched=fbvt" in the command line in grub.conf.
It didn't change the results at all. And why would it? We are not
dealing with an "I/O bound domain" here, but rather with an "I/O
domain", two very different things.
It seems to me that this problem doesn't have anything to do with the
choice of scheduling policy or parameters; It is about when the
scheduler is called. It appears as though the xen cpu scheduler
currently only runs when the hardware timer ticks. It does not run when
an external interrupt happens. So there is a large latency introduced to
I/O interrupts, and this limits I/O performance. Changing the scheduler
algorithm won't help this.
The only way to avoid this is to immediately dispatch the I/O domain
responsible for a given I/O interrupt as soon as that interrupt occurs.
This means giving I/O domains with pending interrupts scheduling
priority over any "regular" domains. Just as in a "normal" operating
system, interrupt service routines must complete before any user
processes are executed. Otherwise, latencies are introduced that kill
I/O performance.
Rob Gardner
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