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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Xen Platform QoS design discussion
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 10:11:46 +0100
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>>> "Xu, Dongxiao" <dongxiao.xu@intel.com> 05/29/14 9:31 AM >>>
>Okay. If I understand correctly, you prefer to implement a pure MSR access
>hypercall for one CPU, and put all other CQM things in libxc/libxl layer.

>In this case, if libvert/XenAPI is trying to query a domain's cache utilization
>in the system (say 2 sockets), then it will trigger _two_ such MSR access
>hypercalls for CPUs in the 2 different sockets.
>If you are okay with this idea, I am going to implement it.
 
I am okay with it, but give it a couple of days before you start so that others
can voice their opinions too.

Jan