[PATCH 00/17] Paravirt CPUs and push task for less vCPU preemption
Greg KH
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Nov 25 04:05:04 AEDT 2025
On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 06:14:32PM +0530, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
> Detailed problem statement and some of the implementation choices were
> discussed earlier[1].
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250910174210.1969750-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com/
>
> This is likely the version which would be used for LPC2025 discussion on
> this topic. Feel free to provide your suggestion and hoping for a solution
> that works for different architectures and it's use cases.
>
> All the existing alternatives such as cpu hotplug, creating isolated
> partitions etc break the user affinity. Since number of CPUs to use change
> depending on the steal time, it is not driven by User. Hence it would be
> wrong to break the affinity. This series allows if the task is pinned
> only paravirt CPUs, it will continue running there.
>
> Changes compared v3[1]:
There is no "v" for this series :(
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