Re: [PATCH v5] KVM: halt-polling: poll for the upcoming fire timers

[Wanpeng Li]

2016-05-26 18:30 GMT+08:00 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>:
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> On 26/05/2016 12:26, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> As discussed on IRC, I would like to understand why the adaptive
>> adjustment of halt_poll_ns is failing.  It seems like you have so few
>> halts that you don't get halt_poll_ns>0.  Yet, when the VM halts, it's
>> very close to the timer tick---often enough for this patch to have an
>> effect.
>>
>> Please send a trace of halt_poll_ns_grow and halt_poll_ns_shrink
>> tracepoints, so that we can find out more about this.
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> And 30 seconds after I wrote this email, you told me on IRC that the
> guest had HZ=1000 and the module parameter was set to 1 ms in order to
> _really_ benefit from the patch.  So basically you could obtain the same
> effect with idle=poll in the guest.
>
> This explains why your reported results were not so great (as David noted).

Yeah, I will drop the patch.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li