Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus

From: Avi Kivity <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:25:24 +0300

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:54:21PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> 3ms latency for ping?
>>
>> (ping will always be scheduled immediately when the reply arrives if I  
>> understand cfs, so guest load won't delay it)
>>     
>
> That only happens if the guest immediately does some CPU-intensive
> computation 3ms and assuming its timeslice lasts that long.
>   

 Note that this happens even if the computation is SCHED_BATCH.

> In any case, the same thing will happen right now if the host or
> some other guest on the same CPU hogs the CPU for 3ms.
>
>   

If the host is overloaded, that's fair.  But millisecond latencies 
without host contention is not a good result.

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