Currently, on a large vcpu guests, there is a high probability of
yielding to the same vcpu who had recently done a pause-loop exit or
cpu relax intercepted. Such a yield can lead to the vcpu spinning
again and hence degrade the performance.
The patchset keeps track of the pause loop exit/cpu rela
On 07/18/2012 07:08 PM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
From: Raghavendra K T
+bool kvm_vcpu_eligible_for_directed_yield(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ bool eligible;
+
+ eligible = !vcpu->spin_loop.in_spin_loop ||
+ (vcpu->spin_loop.in_spin_loop&&
+v
From: Raghavendra K T
Currently, on a large vcpu guests, there is a high probability of
yielding to the same vcpu who had recently done a pause-loop exit or
cpu relax intercepted. Such a yield can lead to the vcpu spinning
again and hence degrade the performance.
The patchset keeps track of the
