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[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] IPF/Xen VTI domain testing report for X

To: "Xu, Anthony" <anthony.xu@xxxxxxxxx>, "You, Yongkang" <yongkang.you@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] IPF/Xen VTI domain testing report for Xen 3.0.3 RC1
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:44:05 +0100
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On 29/9/06 14:28, "Xu, Anthony" <anthony.xu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> 5. LTP testing might run very slow in SMP VTI Domain with credit scheduler.
>> If binding VTI
>> and Xen0 vcpu, this bug won't be there.
> 
> Hi keir,
> 
> In credit scheduler, two vcpus in the same domain may be scheduled on the same
> CPU. For instance, vcpu0 and vcpu1 are running on the same CPU, vcpu0 is doing
> spin_lock in guest, then time slice is due, vcpu0 is scheduled out before
> doing spin_unlock, vcpu1 is scheduled in, vcpu1 is also trying to get the same
> spin lock, yes vcpu1 can't get this lock due to this lock has been got by
> vcpu0, so vcpu1 tight loop until its time slice is due, so this domain is very
> slow.
> Of cause, even vcpu0 and vcpu1 are running on different CPUs, there is still
> similar situation, but the impact is less.
> 
> What do you think about this?

IBM did some tests at one point which concluded that we'd get little or no
benefit from paravirtualising spinlocks to yield-on-spin. This is mainly
because spinlock critical regions are usually very small. The chances of
preempting someone while they are in a spinlock critical region, *and*
scheduling someone else who wants to take the same lock, *and* not having
another CPU idle enough to run the lock-holding VCPU, should be very small.

 -- Keir



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