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authorRaghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-07-18 19:07:46 +0530
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2012-07-23 13:01:52 +0300
commit4c088493c8d07e4e27bad53a99dcfdc14cdf45f8 (patch)
treeb90cfa07e207bb938b6997ae62c774c0624b0dd6 /virt
parentf2a743473194a1ad44a85f8b63aeef9d63e5bf47 (diff)
KVM: Note down when cpu relax intercepted or pause loop exited
Noting pause loop exited vcpu or cpu relax intercepted helps in filtering right candidate to yield. Wrong selection of vcpu; i.e., a vcpu that just did a pl-exit or cpu relax intercepted may contribute to performance degradation. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> # on s390x Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 68dda513cd72..0892b75eeedd 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ int kvm_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm *kvm, unsigned id)
}
vcpu->run = page_address(page);
+ kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(vcpu, false);
+ kvm_vcpu_set_dy_eligible(vcpu, false);
+
r = kvm_arch_vcpu_init(vcpu);
if (r < 0)
goto fail_free_run;
@@ -1585,6 +1588,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
int pass;
int i;
+ kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(me, true);
/*
* We boost the priority of a VCPU that is runnable but not
* currently running, because it got preempted by something
@@ -1610,6 +1614,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
}
}
}
+ kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(me, false);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vcpu_on_spin);