Re: [PATCH][RFC] kvm-scheduler integration

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jul 10 2007 - 07:30:28 EST



* Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How do you feel about some variant of this going into 2.6.23-rc1? I
> initially thought of this as a 2.6.24 thing, but as it now looks
> solid, maybe we can hurry things along.

yeah, fine by me. You were working on a more generic patch, right? I
think a good approach would be an atomic notifier chain.

> If Shaohua ports his spinlock->mutex convertion to the sched branch,
> we get some real benefits:
>
> - reduced latencies for desktop users
> - less kvm patches to carry in -rt (maybe none?)

yeah, and i think we can reach 'none'.

Ingo
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