On 09/14/2018 10:02 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 02:45:35AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 13.09.18 at 18:51, <dfaggi...@suse.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2018-09-13 at 17:38 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>>>> Credit2 was declared "supported" in 4.8, and as of 4.10 had two other
>>>> critical features implemented (soft affinity / NUMA and caps).
>>>>
>>>> [..]
>>>>
>>>> Credit2, like credit, has a number of workloads / setups for which
>>>> performance could be improved.  Personally I think networking and
>>>> partially-loaded systems is going to be more representative of what
>>>> Xen is actually used for; so I think credit2 is on the whole the
>>>> better scheduler to use by default.  And in any case, making those
>>>> improvements on credit2 will be easier than on credit.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com>
>>>>
>>> After all the effort we've spent on this, I'm really, really happy to
>>> see this (trying to) happen. Thanks for sending the patch. :-)
>>>
>>> I fully agree with and second George's reasoning, and feel 100% like
>>> providing my:
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Dario Faggioli <dfaggi...@suse.com>
>>
>> And that's despite "sched=credit2 crashes system when using
>> cpupools"? While I agree that we shouldn't delay the switch for
> 
> Urgh, this is a really nasty bug.
> 
>> much longer, in particular with there already being a fix available
>> from you I think that one should go in before the one here.
> 
> +1.

The other fix is in.  I'll wait a few days and push this change, if
there are no objections.

 -George

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