% Credit2 Scheduler
-% Revision 1
+% Revision 2
\clearpage
`LIBXL\_HAVE\_SCHED\_CREDIT2\_PARAMS` symbol is introduced to
indicate their availability.
-# Limitations
-
-The Credit1 scheduler comes with vCPU hard-affinity, vCPU soft-affinity
-and caps (see `docs/man/xl.pod.1.in` for more details). In Credit2,
-vCPU hard affinity is supported starting from Xen 4.8, while soft-affinity
-and caps, while being worked on, are not yet available in any released
-hypervisor.
-
# Testing
Any change done in Credit2 wants to be tested by doing at least the
# Areas for improvement
-* Close the feature gap with Credit1 (i.e., finishing implementing vCPU
- soft-affinity and caps);
* vCPUs' reservations (similar to caps, but providing a vCPU with guarantees
about some pCPU time it will always be able to execute for);
* benchmarking for assessing the best combination of values for the various
Date Revision Version Notes
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2016-10-14 1 Xen 4.8 Document written
+2017-11-6 2 Xen 4.10 Soft-affinity and caps implemented
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