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Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 24, 2017
Applicant:

Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);

Inventors:

Michael Tsirkin, Lexington, MA (US);

Bandan Das, Wakefield, MA (US);

Assignee:

Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for hypervisor scheduling of polling tasks are disclosed. In one implementation, responsive to determining that no input/output (I/O) worker tasks associated with virtual machines are running on a processor of a host computer system running a plurality of virtual machines, callback dispatcher task may be invoked by the processor. The callback dispatcher task may identify an entry of a callback list, wherein the entry references an input/output (I/O) worker task associated with a virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines. The callback dispatcher task may further invoke a callback code referenced by the entry of the callback list. Responsive to identifying a pending I/O request, the callback code may wake up the input/output (I/O) worker task associated with the entry of the callback list.


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