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

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 11:12 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/12/2012 05:17 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >> ARM doesn't have an instruction for cpu_relax(), so it can't intercept
> >> it.  Given ppc's dislike of overcommit, and the way it implements
> >> cpu_relax() by adjusting hw thread priority, I'm guessing it doesn't
> >> intercept those either, but I'm copying the ppc people in case I'm
> >> wrong.  So it's s390 and x86.
> > 
> > No but our spinlocks call __spin_yield()  (or __rw_yield) which does
> > some paravirt tricks already.
> > 
> > We check if the holder is currently running, and if not, we call the
> > H_CONFER hypercall which can be used to "give" our time slice to the
> > holder.
> > 
> > Our implementation of H_CONFER in KVM is currently a nop though.
> 
> Okay, so you can join the party.  See yield_to() and kvm_vcpu_on_spin().

Thanks ! I'll have a look eventually :-)

Cheers,
Ben.


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