Re: [Xen-devel] Cpu pools discussion

[Zhigang Wang <zhigang.x.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 28/07/2009 16:29, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Currently this is done with pinning, but pinning
>> does restrict the flexibility of a multi-vcpu VM.
>> Affinity seems like it should help, but affinity
>> doesn't restrict the VM from running on a non-affinitive
>> pcpu (does it?)
> 
> Yes it does. VCPUs only run on PCPUs in their affinity masks.
> 
>  -- Keir
> 
> 
I'm wondering is there some performance difference between these
two scenario:

1) vcpu0 pinned to pcpu0, vcpu1 pinned to pcpu1.
2) vcpu0 and vcpu1 affined to pcpu0 and pcpu1 but not pinned.

Currently we have to explicitly pin *every* vcpu to get true hard partitioning.

We are seeking for a better solution, whether it will be in the hypervisor or 
just
user space tools. But seems the cpu pool concept is attractive.

thanks,

zhigang

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