Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch][resend] implementation of cpupool support in xl

[Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ð ÐÑÐ, 16/09/2010 Ð 15:01 +0200, Juergen Gross ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On 09/16/10 07:58, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
> > Sorry for may be breaking thread, but what benefits of using cpu pool in
> > Xen? Can You provide some use cases for using cpu pools?
> 
> Without cpu pools the whole Xen server is running one scheduler which is
> scheduling all domains on all cpus (possibly with some restrictions due to
> cpu pinning). With cpu pools each pool is running it's own scheduler
> responsible only for some cpus and some domains. This may be important if
> you want to:
> - isolate some domains from others regarding cpu usage
> - restrict a group of domains to a subset of cpus (e.g. due to license
>    restrictions), while scheduling parameters should still be working (this 
> was
>    our main problem without cpu pools: scheduling weights and cpu pinning are
>    not working together very well)
> - use different scheduling strategies for different domains (e.g. credit
>    scheduler for some domains and credit2 or sedf for others)
> 
> For an extended discussion on cpu pools please see:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-07/msg01116.html
> 
> 
> HTH Juergen
> 

Thank you very much!

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Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx>
Selfip.Ru


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