[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: response to SIGUSR1 to start/stop a VCPU (v2)

[Rik van Riel]

On 12/01/2010 02:35 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 14:24 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > Even if we equalized the amount of CPU time each VCPU
> > ends up getting across some time interval, that is no
> > guarantee they get useful work done, or that the time
> > gets fairly divided to _user processes_ running inside
> > the guest.
>
> Right, and Jeremy was working on making the guest load-balancer aware of
> that so the user-space should get fairly scheduled on service (of
> course, that's assuming you run a linux guest with that logic in).

At that point, you might not need the host side balancing
any more, since the guest can move around processes
internally (if needed).

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