Xen users - Apr 2013 - xen credit

Hi all,


Now I am reading the source code sched-credit. The xen version is 4.2.1.  I can
not fully understand two places.


One place is:
There is a variable in schedule.c. There is per cpu variable,
tasklet_work_to_do. Read this variable, set the tasklet_work,
unsigned long        *tasklet_work = &this_cpu(tasklet_work_to_do);
    bool_t                tasklet_work_scheduled = 0;


Then according to the task_work, set the tasklet_work_scheduled:
/* Update tasklet scheduling status. */
    switch ( *tasklet_work )
    {
    case TASKLET_enqueued:
        set_bit(_TASKLET_scheduled, tasklet_work);
    case TASKLET_enqueued|TASKLET_scheduled:
        tasklet_work_scheduled = 1;
        break;
    case TASKLET_scheduled:
        clear_bit(_TASKLET_scheduled, tasklet_work);
    case 0:
        /*tasklet_work_scheduled = 0;*/
        break;
    default:
        BUG();
    }
I can not understand the function of tasklet_work_to_do, tasklet_work,
tasklet_work_scheduled. I can not understand  their meaning. In the
sched_credit.c file,
there are two places that use tasklet_work_scheduled. I can not understand the
meaning of tasklet_work_scheduled.
One place:
if ( !tasklet_work_scheduled
         && prv->ratelimit_us
         && vcpu_runnable(current)
         && !is_idle_vcpu(current)
         && runtime < MICROSECS(prv->ratelimit_us) )
    {
        snext = scurr;
        snext->start_time += now;
        perfc_incr(delay_ms);
        tslice = MICROSECS(prv->ratelimit_us);
        ret.migrated = 0;
        goto out;
}


the other place:
if ( tasklet_work_scheduled )
    {
        snext = CSCHED_VCPU(idle_vcpu[cpu]);
        snext->pri = CSCHED_PRI_TS_BOOST;
    }


This variable tasklet_work_scheduled is obstacle I understand the source code.


Other question is the member s_time_t start_time in structure struct
csched_vcpu. The meaning and function for this variable?
I do not know why when a vcpu is descheduled, its start_time - now, why a vcpu
is scheduled, its start_time + now?
deschedule:
if ( !is_idle_vcpu(scurr->vcpu) )
    {
        /* Update credits of a non-idle VCPU. */
        burn_credits(scurr, now);
        scurr->start_time -= now;
    }


schedule:
if ( !tasklet_work_scheduled
         && prv->ratelimit_us
         && vcpu_runnable(current)
         && !is_idle_vcpu(current)
         && runtime < MICROSECS(prv->ratelimit_us) )
    {
        snext = scurr;
        snext->start_time += now;
        perfc_incr(delay_ms);
        tslice = MICROSECS(prv->ratelimit_us);
        ret.migrated = 0;
        goto out;
    }


Anybody can give me some advice for these problems? Thank you in advance!

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