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Wanpeng Li aca6ff29c4 KVM: dynamic halt-polling
There is a downside of always-poll since poll is still happened for idle
vCPUs which can waste cpu usage. This patchset add the ability to adjust
halt_poll_ns dynamically, to grow halt_poll_ns when shot halt is detected,
and to shrink halt_poll_ns when long halt is detected.

There are two new kernel parameters for changing the halt_poll_ns:
halt_poll_ns_grow and halt_poll_ns_shrink.

                        no-poll      always-poll    dynamic-poll
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Idle (nohz) vCPU %c0     0.15%        0.3%            0.2%
Idle (250HZ) vCPU %c0    1.1%         4.6%~14%        1.2%
TCP_RR latency           34us         27us            26.7us

"Idle (X) vCPU %c0" is the percent of time the physical cpu spent in
c0 over 60 seconds (each vCPU is pinned to a pCPU). (nohz) means the
guest was tickless. (250HZ) means the guest was ticking at 250HZ.

The big win is with ticking operating systems. Running the linux guest
with nohz=off (and HZ=250), we save 3.4%~12.8% CPUs/second and get close
to no-polling overhead levels by using the dynamic-poll. The savings
should be even higher for higher frequency ticks.

Suggested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
[Simplify the patch. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-09-06 16:32:43 +02:00
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arm KVM: arm/arm64: timer: Allow the timer to control the active state 2015-08-12 11:28:26 +01:00
async_pf.c mm: gup: kvm use get_user_pages_unlocked 2015-02-11 17:06:05 -08:00
async_pf.h KVM: fix checkpatch.pl errors in kvm/async_pf.h 2015-06-19 17:16:25 +02:00
coalesced_mmio.c KVM: move iodev.h from virt/kvm/ to include/kvm 2015-03-26 21:43:12 +00:00
coalesced_mmio.h KVM: fix checkpatch.pl errors in kvm/coalesced_mmio.h 2015-06-19 17:16:26 +02:00
eventfd.c KVM: move iodev.h from virt/kvm/ to include/kvm 2015-03-26 21:43:12 +00:00
irqchip.c kvm: irqchip: Break up high order allocations of kvm_irq_routing_table 2015-06-19 17:16:25 +02:00
Kconfig KVM: Disable compat ioctl for s390 2015-02-09 12:44:14 +01:00
kvm_main.c KVM: dynamic halt-polling 2015-09-06 16:32:43 +02:00
vfio.c KVM: count number of assigned devices 2015-07-10 13:25:26 +02:00
vfio.h kvm: vfio: fix unregister kvm_device_ops of vfio 2014-10-24 13:30:47 +02:00