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

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On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:02:15PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> Actually I'm not sure how much sense it makes to introduce this pv
> stuff and the duplicate adaptive halt-polling logic as what has
> already been done in kvm w/o obvious benefit for real workload like
> netperf.

In fact, I would really like to better understand why does the polling
in kvm even help.  Switching to the idle task is supposed to be really
cheap as you are not losing context.  In case of e.g. network polling
you gain the interrupt latency, but in case of kvm it's just an IPI
which is converted to a memory write when using mwait. Is mwait more
costly than commonly thought? Or is the idle driver too agressive in
putting the CPU into deep sleep?

I think this analysis is something that would benefit
bare-metal/containers as well.

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MST

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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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