[PATCH V2 3/5] kvm/ppc/book3s_hv: Implement halt polling in the kvm_hv kernel module
Suraj Jitindar Singh
sjitindarsingh at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 16:33:10 AEST 2016
On 12/07/16 03:26, David Matlack wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/07/2016 18:57, David Matlack wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Suraj Jitindar Singh
>>> <sjitindarsingh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> This patch introduces new halt polling functionality into the kvm_hv kernel
>>>> module. When a vcore is idle it will poll for some period of time before
>>>> scheduling itself out.
>>> Is there any way to reuse the existing halt-polling code? Having two
>>> copies risks them diverging over time.
>> s/risks/guarantees/ :(
>>
>> Unfortunately, handling of the hardware threads in KVM PPC is a mess,
>> and I don't think it's possible to remove the duplication.
> Ah, ok. That's a shame.
It's definitely not ideal having this code duplicated, although we have
the issue that on PPC we only poll once all of the vcpus on a vcore have
ceded and need to retain a reference to that vcore.
Additionally we only actually do this in HV code, on the KVM PR
version we call the generic halt-polling code which doesn't know
about vcores.
I don't see an easy way to use the existing function.
>
>> Paolo
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