Re: [RFC] KVM: optimize the kvm_vcpu_on_spin

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Mon Jul 31 2017 - 08:27:28 EST


> I'm not sure whether the operation of get the vcpu's priority-level is
> expensive on all architectures, so I record it in kvm_sched_out() for
> minimal the extra cycles cost in kvm_vcpu_on_spin().
>

as you only care for x86 right now either way, you can directly optimize
here for the good (here: x86) case (keeping changes and therefore
possible bugs minimal).

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Thanks,

David