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Re: [Xen-devel] [BUG] Linux process vruntime accounting in Xen



On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Dario Faggioli
<dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 14:24 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> On 17/05/16 11:33, George Dunlap wrote:
>> > > Looks like CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING is used for adjusting
>> > > process
>> > > times. KVM uses it but Xen doesn't.
>> > Is someone on the Linux side going to put this on their to-do list
>> > then? :-)
>>
>> Patch sent.
>>
> Yep, seen it, thanks.
>
>> Support was already existing for arm.
>>
> Yes!! I remember Stefano talking about introducing it, and that was
> also why I thought we had it already since long time on x86.
>
> Well, anyway... :-)
>
>> What is missing is support for
>> paravirt_steal_rq_enabled which requires to be able to read the
>> stolen
>> time of another cpu. This can't work today as accessing another cpu's
>> vcpu_runstate_info isn't possible without risking inconsistent data.
>> I plan to add support for this, too, but this will require adding
>> another hypercall to map a modified vcpu_runstate_info containing an
>> indicator for an ongoing update of the data.
>>
> Understood.
>
> So, Tony, up for trying again your workload with this patch applied to
> Linux?
>
> Most likely, it _won't_ fix all the problems you're seeing, but I'm
> curious to see if it helps.

Hi Dario,

I did not see the patch. Can you please send me the patch and I will
try to test it later.

Best
Tony

>
> Thanks again and Regards,
> Dario
> --
> <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli
> Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
>

-- 
Tony. S
Ph. D student of University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

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