Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752566AbaLSMAq (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2014 07:00:46 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com ([209.85.212.179]:38461 "EHLO mail-wi0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751890AbaLSMAo (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2014 07:00:44 -0500 Message-ID: <54941365.60604@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:00:37 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel To: Yang Zhang , "Wu, Feng" , Paolo Bonzini , KVM list CC: "iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [v3 25/26] KVM: Suppress posted-interrupt when 'SN' is set References: <1418397300-10870-1-git-send-email-feng.wu@intel.com> <1418397300-10870-26-git-send-email-feng.wu@intel.com> <5491C0A2.7040503@redhat.com> <5492926E.8070207@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 19/12/2014 06:25, Zhang, Yang Z wrote: > I see your point. But from performance point, if we can schedule the > vCPU to another PCPU to handle the interrupt, it would helpful. But I > remember current KVM will not schedule the vCPU in run queue (even > though it got preempted) to another pCPU to run(Am I right?). So it > may hard to do it. Yes. If the vCPU is in the run queue, it means it exhausted its quantum. As Feng said, the scheduler can decide to migrate it to another pCPU, or it can decide to leave it runnable but not start it. KVM doesn't try to force the scheduler one way or the other. If the vCPU is I/O bound, it will not exhaust its quantum and will not be preempted. It will block, and the wakeup vector will restart it. I don't think urgent notifications are interesting. If you want to do real time work, pin the vCPU to a physical CPU, and isolate the pCPU with isolcpus. Then the vCPU will always be running. Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/