Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] credit: Change default timeslice to 5ms

[Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>]

At 16:29 +0000 on 05 Mar (1394033376), George Dunlap wrote:
> The 30ms timeslice was chosen nearly a decade ago now, with cpu
> "burning" workloads in mind.  In the mean time, processors have gotten
> faster and VMEXITs have gotten faster.  A timeslice of 30ms has a
> major cost when running latency-sensitive workloads like network or
> audio streaming: getting caught behind just one or two other VMs can
> introduce a processing delay of up to 60ms, and the "round-robin"
> nature of the credit scheduler means this delay may be introduced
> every time the VM yields for periods of time.
> 
> The XenServer performance team at Citrix have done extensive testing
> with various timeslices, including 30ms, 10ms, 5ms, and 2ms.  None of
> the workloads exhibited any performance degradation with a 5ms
> timeslice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> CC: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>

> CC: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Marcus Granado <Marcus.Granado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  xen/common/sched_credit.c |    6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/common/sched_credit.c b/xen/common/sched_credit.c
> index db5512e..61553d9 100644
> --- a/xen/common/sched_credit.c
> +++ b/xen/common/sched_credit.c
> @@ -29,9 +29,9 @@
>   * Basic constants
>   */
>  #define CSCHED_DEFAULT_WEIGHT       256
> -#define CSCHED_TICKS_PER_TSLICE     3
> -/* Default timeslice: 30ms */
> -#define CSCHED_DEFAULT_TSLICE_MS    30
> +#define CSCHED_TICKS_PER_TSLICE     1
> +/* Default timeslice: 5ms */
> +#define CSCHED_DEFAULT_TSLICE_MS    5
>  #define CSCHED_CREDITS_PER_MSEC     10
>  
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
> 
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