Re: [Qemu-devel] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/10] VM Power Management

2014-12-12 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 12/12/2014 17:10, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 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 fr

Re: [Qemu-devel] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/10] VM Power Management

2014-12-12 Thread Thomas Monjalon
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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/10] VM Power Management

2014-12-12 Thread 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/10] VM Power Management

2014-12-12 Thread Carew, Alan
Hi Paolo, > 2014-12-09 18:35, Paolo Bonzini: > > Did you make any progress in Qemu/KVM community? > > We need to be sync'ed up with them to be sure we share the same > goal. > > I want also to avoid using a solution which doesn't fit with > > their plan. > > Remember that

Re: [Qemu-devel] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/10] VM Power Management

2014-12-11 Thread Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-09 18:35, Paolo Bonzini: > Did you make any progress in Qemu/KVM community? > We need to be sync'ed up with them to be sure we share the same goal. > I want also to avoid using a solution which doesn't fit with their > plan. > Remember that we already had this probl

Re: [Qemu-devel] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/10] VM Power Management

2014-11-22 Thread Vincent JARDIN
Tim, cc-ing Paolo and qemu-devel@ again in order to get their take on it. Did you make any progress in Qemu/KVM community? We need to be sync'ed up with them to be sure we share the same goal. I want also to avoid using a solution which doesn't fit with their plan. Remember that we already had