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docs: Update credit/credit2 feature docs reflecting new default scheduler
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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# Overview
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Credit (also known as Credit1) is the default virtual CPU (vCPU) scheduler
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Credit (also known as Credit1) is the old virtual CPU (vCPU) scheduler
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of the Xen hypervisor.
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It is a general purpose, weighted fair-share scheduler.
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# User details
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Xen supports multiple schedulers. As said, Credit is the default, so it
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is used automatically, unless the `sched=$SCHED` (with `$SCHED` different
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than `credit`) parameter is passed to Xen via the bootloader.
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Xen supports multiple schedulers. Credit is no longer the default. In
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order to use it as the Xen scheduler the following parameter should be
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passed to the hypervisor at boot:
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`sched=credit`
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Once the system is live, for creating a cpupool with Credit as its
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scheduler, either compile a cpupool configuration file, as described
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Date Revision Version Notes
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2016-10-14 1 Xen 4.8 Document written
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2019-02-7 3 Xen 4.12 No longer default scheduler
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---------- -------- -------- -------------------------------------------
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# Overview
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Credit2 is one of the virtual CPU (vCPU) scheduler available in the
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Credit2 is the default virtual CPU (vCPU) scheduler available in the
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Xen hypervisor.
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Credit2 was designed as a general purpose scheduler, with particular
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focus on improving handling of mixed workloads, scalability and
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support for low latency applications inside VMs, with respect to
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Credit1.
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support for low latency applications inside VMs.
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# User details
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Credit2 is not in use by default. In order to use it as the Xen
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scheduler the following parameter should be passed to the hypervisor
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at boot:
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`sched=credit2`
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Xen supports multiple schedulers. As said, Credit2 is the default, so
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it is used automatically, unless the `sched=$SCHED` (with `$SCHED`
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different than `credit2`) parameter is passed to Xen via the
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bootloader.
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Other parameters are available for tuning the behavior of Credit2
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(see `docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown` for a complete list and
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2016-10-14 1 Xen 4.8 Document written
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2017-11-6 2 Xen 4.10 Soft-affinity and caps implemented
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2019-02-7 3 Xen 4.12 Made the default scheduler
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---------- -------- -------- -------------------------------------------
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