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Re: [PATCH v5] KVM: halt-polling: poll for the upcoming fire timers

From Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v5] KVM: halt-polling: poll for the upcoming fire timers
Date 2016-05-27 11:50 +0200
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On 26/05/2016 22:33, yunhong jiang wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2016 12:26:27 +0200
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On 25/05/2016 04:47, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>>> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
>>>
>>> If an emulated lapic timer will fire soon(in the scope of 10us the
>>> base of dynamic halt-polling, lower-end of message passing workload
>>> latency TCP_RR's poll time < 10us) we can treat it as a short halt,
>>> and poll to wait it fire, the fire callback apic_timer_fn() will set
>>> KVM_REQ_PENDING_TIMER, and this flag will be check during busy poll.
>>> This can avoid context switch overhead and the latency which we wake
>>> up vCPU.
>>
>> As discussed on IRC, I would like to understand why the adaptive
> 
> Glad to know the IRC channel. Is #kvm channel on freenode the IRC you are
> talking about?

No, it's #qemu on irc.oftc.net.

Thanks,

Paolo

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[PATCH v5] KVM: halt-polling: poll for the upcoming fire timers Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2016-05-25 04:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v5] KVM: halt-polling: poll for the upcoming fire timers Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-05-26 12:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v5] KVM: halt-polling: poll for the upcoming fire timers Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-05-26 12:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v5] KVM: halt-polling: poll for the upcoming fire timers Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2016-05-26 13:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v5] KVM: halt-polling: poll for the upcoming fire timers yunhong jiang <yunhong.jiang@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-26 22:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v5] KVM: halt-polling: poll for the upcoming fire timers Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-05-27 11:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v5] KVM: halt-polling: poll for the upcoming fire timers yunhong jiang <yunhong.jiang@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-28 02:30 +0200

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