On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 19:35 +0800, Feng Wu wrote:
> This patch adds the following arch hooks in scheduler:
>
So, preliminary question: does this mean that you have identified (and
fixed) the differences in behavior wrt the runstate based model, which
was causing performance issue?

I've been sidetracked a bit in looking at your previous patch, but did
found a couple of differences, which I was about to report... But I
guess that's no longer necessary, I guess, is it?

Dario

> - vmx_pre_ctx_switch_pi():
> It is called before context switch, we update the posted
> interrupt descriptor when the vCPU is preempted, go to sleep,
> or is blocked.
> 
> - vmx_post_ctx_switch_pi()
> It is called after context switch, we update the posted
> interrupt descriptor when the vCPU is going to run.
> 
> - arch_vcpu_wake()
> It will be called when waking up the vCPU, we update
> the posted interrupt descriptor when the vCPU is unblocked.

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