Originally posted by: niella

Hi,

On a POWER6 system with multiple shared processor pools:

Would the idle CPU resources from a particular shared processor pool be available to any other shared processor pool, or is it only available to LPARs in the same shared processor pool?

Thanks,
Niel
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Originally posted by: j.gann

the hypervisor uses a two-pass algorithm. in short a first pass hands out unused cpu cycles to lpars in the same pool, a second pass hands out unused cycles to lpars in the default pool (pool 0).

for details read redbook sg247940
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Originally posted by: niella

Thanks, I found it as per your description on p55, "Levels of processor capacity resolution".
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