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Re: [Xen-devel] Credit Scheduler not working correct (3.0.4-0)

To: Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Credit Scheduler not working correct (3.0.4-0)
From: Timo Benk <timo.benk@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:15:23 +0100
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Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
> Hi, Timo
> 
> If you want to divide CPU resources as you expected,
> each vcpu weight should be same.
> In your case, you should define xendom1 for 1vcpu
> and xendom2 for 2vcpu(s). then after you should pin these vcpus to pcpu0.

Hm, is that a bug or a feature?

I thought the crdeit-schedulers primary goal was to avoid this pinning nightmare
you have with SEDF?

Greetings,
-timo

> Timo Benk <timo.benk@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> on my system, it seems that the credit scheduler does not work as expected. 
>> The
>> problem seems to be related to HyperThreading, if i switch off HT in the BIOS
>> Setup, the scheduler works as expected.
>>
>> I have two domains running, both pinned to the same processor:
>>
>> Domain-0:~ # xm vcpu-list
>> Name                              ID  VCPU   CPU State   Time(s) CPU
>> Affinity
>> Domain-0                           0     0     1   ---      30.2 any cpu
>> Domain-0                           0     1     1   r--      12.0 any cpu
>> xendom1                            1     0     0   ---      98.6 0
>> xendom2                            2     0     0   r--     110.3 0
>>
>> Both domains should consume max. 100 Percent of that processor, but
>> xendom1 has a weight twice as big as xendom2:
>>
>> Domain-0:~ # xm sched-credit -d xendom1
>> {'cap': 100, 'weight': 200}
>> Domain-0:~ # xm sched-credit -d xendom2
>> {'cap': 100, 'weight': 100}
>>
>> In my understanding of the credit scheduler, xendom1 should get twice as
>> much CPU-time as xendom2. But:
>>
>> xentop - 11:05:46   Xen 3.0.4-0
>> Mem: 2612284k total, 2603852k used, 8432k free    CPUs: 2 @ 2992MHz
>>       NAME  STATE   CPU(sec) CPU(%)  [...]
>>   Domain-0 -----r         42    0.6  [...]
>>    xendom1 ------        122   49.8  [...]
>>    xendom2 -----r        133   50.2  [...]
>>
>> As you can see, both domains got an equal amount of the CPU.
>>
>> Am i missing something or do i understand something wrong?
>>
>> Greetings,
>> -timo
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