Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/3] xen: Have schedulers revise initial placement

[Meng Xu <xumengpanda@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 2:02 PM, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The generic domain creation logic in
> xen/common/domctl.c:default_vcpu0_location() attempts to try to do
> initial placement load-balancing by placing vcpu 0 on the least-busy
> non-primary hyperthread available.  Unfortunately, the logic can end
> up picking a pcpu that's not in the online mask.  When this is passed
> to a scheduler such which assumes that the initial assignment is
> valid, it causes a null pointer dereference looking up the runqueue.
>
> Furthermore, this initial placement doesn't take into account hard or
> soft affinity, or any scheduler-specific knowledge (such as historic
> runqueue load, as in credit2).
>
> To solve this, when inserting a vcpu, always call the per-scheduler
> "pick" function to revise the initial placement.  This will
> automatically take all knowledge the scheduler has into account.
>
> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> CC: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Anshul Makkar <anshul.makkar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Meng Xu <mengxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  xen/common/sched_credit.c  |  3 +++
>  xen/common/sched_credit2.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>  xen/common/sched_rt.c      |  3 +++
>  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


As to xen/common/sched_rt.c,

Reviewed-by: Meng Xu <mengxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Meng Xu
PhD Student in Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mengxu/

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