Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:29:56 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/16] sched: Core scheduling |
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 12:40 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > If there were close to no VMEXITs, it beat smt=off, if there were lots > of VMEXITs it was far far worse. Supposedly hosting people try their > very bestest to have no VMEXITs so it mostly works for them (with the > obvious exception of single VCPU guests). > > It's just that people have been bugging me for this crap; and I figure > I'd post it now that it's not exploding anymore and let others have at.
The patches didn't look disgusting to me, but I admittedly just scanned through them quickly.
Are there downsides (maintenance and/or performance) when core scheduling _isn't_ enabled? I guess if it's not a maintenance or performance nightmare when off, it's ok to just give people the option.
That all assumes that it works at all for the people who are clamoring for this feature, but I guess they can run some loads on it eventually. It's a holiday in the US right now ("Presidents' Day"), but maybe we can get some numebrs this week?
Linus
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