Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Shared vhost design
From: Bandan Das
Date: Sat Aug 01 2015 - 14:49:00 EST
Eyal Moscovici <EYALMO@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
...
>
> We can start to implement polling, but I am unsure if the cgroups
> integration
> will be sufficient. The polling vhost thread should be scheduled all
> the time and just moving it from one cgroup to the other wont be
> sufficient.
> I think it needs a deeper integration to the point where either we have a
> vhost thread for each cgroup or the vhost thread enforces the cgroup
> policies over its polled VM guests.
Agreed, what we have with cgroups is not sufficient. I am waiting
for Tejun et al to comment on our approach :) Michael mentioned whether
it's possible to integrate cgroups into workgroups which I think is a more
generic and the preferred solution. I just don't know yet how easy/difficult
it is to implement this with the new cgroups unified hierarchy.
BTW, I am working on the numbers you had asked for. Honestly, I think the
cost of cgroups could be similar to running a vhost thread/guest since
that is how cgroups integration currently works. But it's good to have the
numbers before us.
>>
>> So simple polling by vhost is kind of ok for some guests, but I think to
>> really make it work for a reasonably wide selection of guests/workloads
>> you need to combine it with 1. polling the NIC - it makes no sense to me
>> to only poll one side of the equation; and probably 2. - polling in
>> guest.
>>
>
> I agree that we need polling on the NIC which could probably be achieved
> by using
> the polling interface introduced in kernel 3.11:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/551284/
> although I never tried using it myself.
> About your point about polling inside the guest, I think it is orthogonal
> to polling
> in the host.
>
>
> Eyal Moscovici
> HL-Cloud Infrastructure Solutions
> IBM Haifa Research Lab
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