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

From: Nikunj A Dadhania
Date: Thu Jul 12 2012 - 06:49:03 EST


On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:04:03 +0300, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > So this would probably improve guests that uses cpu_relax, for example
> > stop_machine_run. I have no measurements, though.
>
> smp_call_function() too (though that can be converted to directed yield
> too). It seems worthwhile.
>
With

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/26/266 in tip:x86/mm

which now uses smp_call_function_many in native_flush_tlb_others. It
will help that too.

Nikunj

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