RE: [Xen-devel] Performance difference between Xen versions

["Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Keir Fraser
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 4:49 PM
> 
> On 02/05/2011 09:23, "Juergen Gross" <juergen.gross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 05/02/11 10:15, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>>> On 02.05.11 at 10:00, Juergen Gross<juergen.gross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>> On the long run I'd like to make the cpufreq governor a feature of
> >>> the cpupool. This would enable an administrator of a large Xen
> >>> machine with a heterogeneous load to specify which domains should
> >>> run at full speed and which are allowed to save energy at the cost of
> latency.
> >>>
> >>> What do you think?
> >> Certainly an interesting idea, with the question of how an
> >> implementation of this would look like.
> >
> > Let me do some research work first :-) I hope to make a proposal soon.
> 
> I think it's a good idea, and it should be quite possible to implement 
> cleanly.
> 

yes, this is a good direction. Actually there have been several papers around 
this topic
before. Basically it's a reasonable choice to inject higher level knowledge 
together
with VMM heuristics, as in virtualization or cloud we usually have an 
intelligent stack
which needs to understand many high level requirements/characteristics already. 
:-)

Thanks
Kevin

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