On 3/4/2013 10:02 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

This helps in filtering out the eligible candidates further and
thus potentially helps in quickly allowing preempted lockholders to run.
Note that if a vcpu was spinning during preemption we filter them
by checking whether they are preempted due to pause loop exit.

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c |    2 ++
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 83a804c..60114e1 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1790,6 +1790,8 @@ void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
                                continue;
                        } else if (pass && i > last_boosted_vcpu)
                                break;
+                       if (!ACCESS_ONCE(vcpu->preempted))
+                               continue;
                        if (vcpu == me)
                                continue;
                        if (waitqueue_active(&vcpu->wq))

.

Reviewed-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vi...@hp.com>
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