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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/10] VM Power Management
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:10:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6597811.ARdDfzU0XI@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <548B00B3.8040201@redhat.com>

2014-12-12 15:50, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 12/12/2014 14:00, Carew, Alan wrote:
> > The problem is deterministic control of host CPU frequency and the DPDK usage
> > model.
> > A hands-off power governor will scale based on workload, whether this is a host
> > application or VM, so no problems or bug there.
> > 
> > Where this solution fits is where an application wants to control its own
> > power policy, for example l3fwd_power uses librte_power library to change
> > frequency via apci_cpufreq based on application heuristics rather than
> > relying on an inbuilt policy for example ondemand or performance.
> > 
> > This ability has existed in DPDK for host usage for some time and VM power
> > management allows this use case to be extended to cater for virtual machines
> > by re-using the librte_power interface to encapsulate the VM->Host
> > comms and provide an example means of managing such communications.
> > 
> >  I hope this clears it up a bit.
> 
> Ok, this looks specific enough that an out-of-band solution within DPDK
> sounds like the best approach.  It seems unnecessary to involve the
> hypervisor (neither KVM nor QEMU).

Paolo, I don't understand why you don't imagine controlling frequency scaling
of a pinned vCPU transparently?
In my understanding, we currently cannot control frequency scaling without
knowing wether we are in a VM or not.

-- 
Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-12 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-22 18:34 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH " Alan Carew
2014-09-22 18:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/10] Channel Manager and Monitor for VM Power Management(Host) Alan Carew
2014-09-22 18:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/10] VM Power Management CLI(Host) Alan Carew
2014-09-22 18:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/10] CPU Frequency Power Management(Host) Alan Carew
2014-09-22 18:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/10] " Alan Carew
2014-09-22 18:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/10] VM communication channels for VM Power Management(Guest) Alan Carew
2014-09-22 18:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/10] Alternate implementation of librte_power " Alan Carew
2014-09-22 19:17   ` Neil Horman
2014-09-23  7:48     ` Carew, Alan
2014-09-22 18:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/10] Packet format for VM Power Management(Host and Guest) Alan Carew
2014-09-22 18:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/10] Build system integration for VM Power Management(Guest and Host) Alan Carew
2014-09-22 18:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/10] VM Power Management Unit Tests(Guest) Alan Carew
2014-09-22 18:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/10] VM Power Management CLI(Guest) Alan Carew
2014-09-24 17:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/10] VM Power Management Alan Carew
2014-09-24 17:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 01/10] Channel Manager and Monitor for VM Power Management(Host) Alan Carew
2014-09-24 17:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 02/10] VM Power Management CLI(Host) Alan Carew
2014-09-24 17:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/10] CPU Frequency Power Management(Host) Alan Carew
2014-09-24 17:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 04/10] VM Power Management application and Makefile Alan Carew
2014-09-24 17:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 05/10] VM Power Management CLI(Guest) Alan Carew
2014-09-24 17:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 06/10] VM communication channels for VM Power Management(Guest) Alan Carew
2014-09-24 17:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/10] librte_power common interface for Guest and Host Alan Carew
2014-09-25 10:10     ` Neil Horman
2014-09-25 17:06       ` Carew, Alan
2014-09-25 17:49         ` Neil Horman
2014-09-24 17:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/10] Packet format for VM Power Management(Host and Guest) Alan Carew
2014-09-24 17:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 09/10] Build system integration for VM Power Management(Guest and Host) Alan Carew
2014-09-24 17:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 10/10] VM Power Management Unit Tests Alan Carew
2014-09-25  2:56   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/10] VM Power Management Liu, Yong
2014-09-29 15:18   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Alan Carew
2014-09-29 15:18     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 01/10] Channel Manager and Monitor for VM Power Management(Host) Alan Carew
2014-09-29 15:18     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 02/10] VM Power Management CLI(Host) Alan Carew
2014-09-29 15:18     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 03/10] CPU Frequency Power Management(Host) Alan Carew
2014-09-29 15:18     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 04/10] VM Power Management application and Makefile Alan Carew
2014-09-29 15:18     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 05/10] VM Power Management CLI(Guest) Alan Carew
2014-09-29 15:18     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 06/10] VM communication channels for VM Power Management(Guest) Alan Carew
2014-09-29 15:18     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 07/10] librte_power common interface for Guest and Host Alan Carew
2014-09-29 15:18     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 08/10] Packet format for VM Power Management(Host and Guest) Alan Carew
2014-09-29 15:18     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 09/10] Build system integration for VM Power Management(Guest and Host) Alan Carew
2014-09-29 15:18     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 10/10] VM Power Management Unit Tests Alan Carew
2014-09-29 17:29     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 00/10] VM Power Management Neil Horman
2014-10-12 19:36     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 " Alan Carew
2014-10-12 19:36       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 01/10] Channel Manager and Monitor for VM Power Management(Host) Alan Carew
2014-10-12 19:36       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 02/10] VM Power Management CLI(Host) Alan Carew
2014-10-12 19:36       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 03/10] CPU Frequency Power Management(Host) Alan Carew
2014-10-12 19:36       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 04/10] VM Power Management application and Makefile Alan Carew
2014-10-16 18:28         ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2014-10-12 19:36       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 05/10] VM Power Management CLI(Guest) Alan Carew
2014-10-12 19:36       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 06/10] VM communication channels for VM Power Management(Guest) Alan Carew
2014-10-12 19:36       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 07/10] librte_power common interface for Guest and Host Alan Carew
2014-10-12 19:36       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 08/10] Packet format for VM Power Management(Host and Guest) Alan Carew
2014-10-12 19:36       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 09/10] Build system integration for VM Power Management(Guest and Host) Alan Carew
2014-10-12 19:36       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 10/10] VM Power Management Unit Tests Alan Carew
2014-10-13  6:17       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/10] VM Power Management Liu, Yong
2014-10-13 20:26       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-14 12:37         ` Carew, Alan
2014-10-14 15:03           ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-16 15:21             ` Carew, Alan
2014-10-28 15:21               ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-10  9:05                 ` Carew, Alan
2014-11-10 17:54                   ` O'driscoll, Tim
2014-11-21 23:51                     ` Zhu, Heqing
2014-11-22 17:17                     ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-12-09 17:35                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-11 23:18                         ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-12 13:00                           ` Carew, Alan
2014-12-12 14:50                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-12 16:10                               ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-12-12 16:13                                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-21 17:42       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 00/10] Virtual Machine " Pablo de Lara
2014-11-21 17:42         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 01/10] Channel Manager and Monitor for VM Power Management(Host) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-21 17:42         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 02/10] VM Power Management CLI(Host) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-21 17:42         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 03/10] CPU Frequency Power Management(Host) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-21 17:42         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 04/10] VM Power Management application and Makefile Pablo de Lara
2014-11-21 17:42         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 05/10] VM Power Management CLI(Guest) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-21 17:42         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 06/10] VM communication channels for VM Power Management(Guest) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-21 17:42         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 07/10] librte_power common interface for Guest and Host Pablo de Lara
2014-11-21 17:42         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 08/10] Packet format for VM Power Management(Host and Guest) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-21 17:42         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 09/10] Build system integration for VM Power Management(Guest and Host) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-21 17:42         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 10/10] VM Power Management Unit Tests Pablo de Lara
2014-11-25 16:18         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/10] Virtual Machine Power Management Pablo de Lara
2014-11-25 16:18           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 01/10] Channel Manager and Monitor for VM Power Management(Host) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-29 15:21             ` Neil Horman
2014-11-25 16:18           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 02/10] VM Power Management CLI(Host) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-25 16:18           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 03/10] CPU Frequency Power Management(Host) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-25 16:18           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 04/10] VM Power Management application and Makefile Pablo de Lara
2014-11-25 16:18           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 05/10] VM Power Management CLI(Guest) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-25 16:18           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 06/10] VM communication channels for VM Power Management(Guest) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-25 16:18           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 07/10] librte_power common interface for Guest and Host Pablo de Lara
2014-11-25 16:18           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 08/10] Packet format for VM Power Management(Host and Guest) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-25 16:18           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 09/10] Build system integration for VM Power Management(Guest and Host) Pablo de Lara
2014-11-25 16:18           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 10/10] VM Power Management Unit Tests Pablo de Lara
2014-11-26 16:41           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/10] Virtual Machine Power Management Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-10  9:19     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] librte_cmdline: FreeBSD Fix oveflow when size of command result structure is greater than BUFSIZ Alan Carew
2014-12-05 14:16       ` Olivier MATZ
2014-12-05 14:19         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Olivier Matz
2014-12-05 15:51           ` Bruce Richardson
2014-12-05 15:58             ` Thomas Monjalon

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