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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com,
	dongxiao.xu@intel.com
Cc: will.auld@intel.com, Ian.Campbell@citrix.com,
	jun.nakajima@intel.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: Xen Platform QoS design discussion
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 12:15:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5388764F02000078000B53FA@mail.emea.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40776A41FC278F40B59438AD47D147A911A2121E@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>

>>> "Xu, Dongxiao" <dongxiao.xu@intel.com> 05/30/14 9:52 AM >>>
> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeulich@suse.com]
>> Question is whether this mechanism (which I'd like to be done so it can also
>> later get added support for e.g. port I/O: see Linux'es dcdbas_smi_request()
>> for where this might be useful) should become a sysctl op or - to be
>> easily usable by the kernel too - a platform one.
>
>For CQM, this MSR access hypercall may be somewhat specific, because it
>requires one MSR write and one MSR read, which cannot be split into two
>separate hypercalls to avoid preemption in the middle.

Sure - you'd need a flag to suppress preemption between two specific (batched)
operations.

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-30 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-30 16:47 Xen Platform QoS design discussion Xu, Dongxiao
2014-04-30 17:02 ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-01  0:56   ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-02  9:23     ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-02 12:30       ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-02 12:40         ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-04  0:46           ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-06  9:10             ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-06  1:40           ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-06  7:55             ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-06 10:06             ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-07  2:08               ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-07  9:10                 ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-07 13:26               ` George Dunlap
2014-05-07 21:18                 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-08  5:21                   ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-08 11:25                     ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-09  2:41                       ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-13  1:53                       ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-16  5:11                       ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-19 11:28                         ` George Dunlap
2014-05-19 11:45                           ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-19 12:13                             ` George Dunlap
2014-05-19 12:41                               ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-22  8:19                                 ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-22  8:39                                   ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-22  9:27                                     ` George Dunlap
2014-05-26  0:51                                       ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-29  0:45                                       ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-29  7:01                                         ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-29  7:31                                           ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-29  9:11                                             ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-30  9:10                                               ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-30 11:17                                                 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-30 12:33                                                   ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-05  0:48                                                   ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-06-05 10:43                                                     ` George Dunlap
2014-05-29  9:13                                             ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-30  1:07                                               ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-30  6:23                                                 ` Jan Beulich
2014-05-30  7:51                                                   ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-30 11:15                                                     ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2014-05-02 12:50         ` Andrew Cooper
2014-05-04  2:34           ` Xu, Dongxiao
2014-05-06  9:12             ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-06 10:00             ` Andrew Cooper

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