Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 0/3] Enable XL to set and get per-VCPU work conserving flag for RTDS scheduler

[Meng Xu <mengxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Meng Xu <mengxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This series of patches enable the toolstack to
> set and get per-VCPU work-conserving flag.
> With the toolstack, system administrators can decide
> which VCPUs will be made work-conserving.
>
> The design of the work-conserving RTDS was discussed in
> https://www.mail-archive.com/xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg77150.html
>
> We plan to perform two steps in making RTDS scheduler work-conserving:
> (1) First make all VCPUs work-conserving by default,
>     which was sent as a separate patch. This work aims for Xen 4.10 release.
> (2) After that, we enable the XL to set and get per-VCPU work-conserving flag,
>     which is this series of patches.


The series of patches that have both steps done can be found at the
following repo: https://github.com/PennPanda/RT-Xen
under the branch xenbits/rtds/work-conserving-RFCv1.

Thanks,

Meng

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Meng Xu
PhD Student in Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mengxu/

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