Re: [PATCH v3 char-misc 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Implement Direct Mode for stimer0

2018-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 09:06:48PM +, Michael Kelley (EOSG) wrote: > From: Michael Kelley > > The 2016 version of Hyper-V offers the option to operate the guest VM > per-vcpu stimer's in Direct Mode, which means the timer interupts on its > own vector rather than

[PATCH v3 char-misc 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Implement Direct Mode for stimer0

2018-01-28 Thread Michael Kelley (EOSG)
From: Michael Kelley The 2016 version of Hyper-V offers the option to operate the guest VM per-vcpu stimer's in Direct Mode, which means the timer interupts on its own vector rather than queueing a VMbus message. Direct Mode reduces timer processing overhead in both the