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[Xen-devel] Re: bad interaction between boosted idle vcpus and csched's

To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: bad interaction between boosted idle vcpus and csched's tickling?
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:14:40 +0100
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On 07/05/2010 13:36, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Keir,
> 
> isn't there a problem after the change to handle tasklets in idle vcpus
> in that {default,acpi_processor}_idle() will put the vcpu to sleep with
> boosted priority still in place, hence preventing it from being tickled
> and/or needlessly tickling other CPUs?

Should be resolved by xen-unstable:21344.

 -- Keir



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