RE: [Xen-devel] cpufreq status information

["Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From: Keir Fraser [mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: 2008年9月8日 22:01
>
>On 8/9/08 14:50, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> The intent is to expose the frequency of the pCPU the 
>particular vCPU
>>> is currently running on, perhaps only in Dom0.
>>> 
>> 
>> Then you have to pin dom0 vCPU to corresponding pCPU, and have
>> dom0 with same number as pCPU. I don't think such limitation
>> necessary for just retrieving some pCPU information.
>> 
>> Or if you still enable vcpu migration, you have to fake virtual freq
>> change notification within dom0 at vcpu migration as pCPU may
>> scale its own freq individually.
>
>Greater virtualisation of cpufreq info (making it available to 
>arbitrary
>guests, with pcpu->vcpu remapping) is just not very useful in 
>my opinion.
>It's one of those features that more hacker-ish users might 
>think they want
>to decorate their desktop.

Agree.

>
>After all, guest performance is at least as affected by CPU (and other
>resources) contention from other guests as it is by power-management
>governors in the hyeprvisor. Indeed, if the governors are 
>doing their job
>right then guest performance should not be considerably 
>impacted by them
>even in absolute terms.

Exactly. :-)

Thanks,
Kevin

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