Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] kvm: Improving directed yield in PLE handler

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Jul 12 2012 - 04:11:53 EST


On 07/12/2012 08:11 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
>> Ah, I thouht you objected to the CONFIG var. Maybe call it
>> cpu_relax_intercepted since that's the linuxy name for the instruction.
>>
>
> Ok, just to be on same page. 'll have :
> 1. cpu_relax_intercepted instead of pause_loop_exited.
>
> 2. CONFIG_KVM_HAVE_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT which is unconditionally
> selected for x86 and s390
>
> 3. make request mechanism to clear cpu_relax_intercepted.
>
> ('ll do same thing for s390 also but have not seen s390 code using
> request mechanism, so not sure if it ok.. otherwise we have to clear
> unconditionally for s390 before guest enter and for x86 we have to move
> make_request back to vmx/svm).
> will post V3 with these changes.

You can leave the s390 changes to the s390 people; just make sure the
generic code is ready.

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