From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>,
dwalker@mvista.com, cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
paulus@au.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Stolen and degraded time and schedulers
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:38:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070316083828.GA22168@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F86247.40109@goop.org>
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > touching the 'timer tick' is the wrong approach. 'stolen time' only
> > matters to the /scheduler tick/. So extend the hypervisor interface to
> > allow the injection of 'virtual' scheduler tick events: via the use of a
> > special clockevents device - do not change clockevents itself.
>
> I didn't. I was using sloppy terminology: I hang the stolen time
> accounting off the Xen timer interrupt routine, just so that it gets
> run every now and again.
i dont understand: how are you separating 'stolen time' drifts from
events generated for absolute timeouts?
> I suppose I could explicitly hook stolen time accounting into the
> scheduler, but its not obvious to me that it's necessary.
right now i dont see any clean way to solve this problem without having
two clockevents drivers: one for the scheduler, one for timer events.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-16 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-13 16:31 Stolen and degraded time and schedulers Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-13 20:12 ` john stultz
2007-03-13 20:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-13 21:27 ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-13 21:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 0:43 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-14 4:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 13:58 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-03-14 15:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 15:12 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-03-14 19:02 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-14 19:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 19:45 ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-14 19:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 20:02 ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-14 20:26 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-14 20:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 20:46 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-14 21:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-15 19:09 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-15 19:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-15 19:48 ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-15 19:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-15 20:07 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-15 20:14 ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-15 20:35 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-16 8:59 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-03-14 20:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-14 20:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-16 8:38 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-03-16 16:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-15 5:23 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-15 19:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 2:00 ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14 6:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 8:20 ` Zan Lynx
2007-03-14 16:11 ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14 16:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 16:59 ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14 17:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 18:06 ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14 18:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 19:00 ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14 19:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 20:33 ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14 21:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 21:34 ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14 21:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 21:36 ` Con Kolivas
2007-03-14 21:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 21:40 ` Con Kolivas
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