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Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support

From Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support
Date 2017-08-29 15:10 +0200
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Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> writes:

> Some latency-intensive workload will see obviously performance 
> drop when running inside VM. The main reason is that the overhead 
> is amplified when running inside VM. The most cost i have seen is 
> inside idle path. 

You could test with https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/9/204
which optimizes these idle paths with a fast path.

If that works it would be a far better solution than
explicit tunables and basically giving up by polling.

-Andi

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[RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
  [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle path Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle  path Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-08-29 14:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle  path Quan Xu <quan.xu0@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 08:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle  path Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-08-29 16:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle  path Quan Xu <quan.xu0@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 09:00 +0200
  [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] x86/paravirt: Add pv_idle_ops to paravirt ops Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] x86/paravirt: Add pv_idle_ops to paravirt ops Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> - 2017-08-29 16:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] x86/paravirt: Add pv_idle_ops to paravirt ops Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-08-30 09:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] x86/paravirt: Add pv_idle_ops to paravirt ops Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 09:00 +0200
  [RFC PATCH v2 5/7] Documentation: Add three sysctls for smart idle poll Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 5/7] Documentation: Add three sysctls for smart  idle poll "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2017-08-29 19:30 +0200
  [RFC PATCH v2 2/7] KVM guest: register kvm_idle_poll for pv_idle_ops Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
  [RFC PATCH v2 4/7] x86/paravirt: Add update in x86/paravirt pv_idle_ops Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
  [RFC PATCH v2 7/7] sched/idle: update poll time when wakeup from idle Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 7/7] sched/idle: update poll time when wakeup from  idle Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-08-29 14:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 7/7] sched/idle: update poll time when wakeup from  idle Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 09:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> - 2017-08-29 14:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 08:30 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2017-08-29 15:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 16:10 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> - 2017-08-29 16:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-08-29 16:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 08:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 09:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 08:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 09:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 10:00 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-08-29 17:00 +0200

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