Re: [RFC v5 2/4] cpu-throttle: new module, extracted from cpus.c

[Alex Bennée]

Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de> writes:

> move the vcpu throttling functionality into its own module.
>
> This functionality is not specific to any accelerator,
> and it is used currently by migration to slow down guests to try to
> have migrations converge, and by the cocoa MacOS UI to throttle speed.
>
> cpu-throttle contains the controls to adjust and inspect throttle
> settings, start (set) and stop vcpu throttling, and the throttling
> function itself that is run periodically on vcpus to make them take a nap.
>
> Execution of the throttling function on all vcpus is triggered by a timer,
> registered at module initialization.
>
> No functionality change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

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Alex Bennée