Re: [RFC][PATCH] Improving directed yield scalability for PLE handler

[Rik van Riel]

On 09/10/2012 04:19 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 15:12 -0500, Andrew Theurer wrote:
> > +       /*
> > +        * if the target task is not running, then only yield if the
> > +        * current task is in guest mode
> > +        */
> > +       if (!(p_rq->curr->flags & PF_VCPU))
> > +               goto out_irq;
>
> This would make yield_to() only ever work on KVM, not that I mind this
> too much, its a horrid thing and making it less useful for (ab)use is a
> good thing, still this probably wants mention somewhere :-)

Also, it would not preempt a non-kvm task, even if we need
to do that to boost a VCPU. I think the lines above should
be dropped.

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