Re: [PATCH 2/5] xen/sched: create public function for cpupools creation

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 15.02.22 18:50, Luca Fancellu wrote:
> > On 15 Feb 2022, at 10:38, Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 15.02.22 11:15, Luca Fancellu wrote:
> > > Create new public function to create cpupools, it checks for pool id
> > > uniqueness before creating the pool and can take a scheduler id or
> > > a negative value that means the default Xen scheduler will be used.
> > > Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@xxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > with one further question: you are allowing to use another scheduler,
> > but what if someone wants to set non-standard scheduling parameters
> > (e.g. another time slice)?
> I guess for now parameters can be tuned only by xl tool, however it would
> be possible as future work to allow parameters in the device tree for each
> scheduler.
That is basically my concern here: A true dom0less setup won't have the
possibility to use xl...

I don't mind this series not supporting that scheme, but the chosen
syntax for the device tree should support that extension (I have not
looked into that, as I have no detailed knowledge about that topic).


Juergen

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