linux/virt/kvm
Nir Weiner 49113d360b KVM: Expose the initial start value in grow_halt_poll_ns() as a module parameter
The hard-coded value 10000 in grow_halt_poll_ns() stands for the initial
start value when raising up vcpu->halt_poll_ns.
It actually sets the first timeout to the first polling session.
This value has significant effect on how tolerant we are to outliers.
On the standard case, higher value is better - we will spend more time
in the polling busyloop, handle events/interrupts faster and result
in better performance.
But on outliers it puts us in a busy loop that does nothing.
Even if the shrink factor is zero, we will still waste time on the first
iteration.
The optimal value changes between different workloads. It depends on
outliers rate and polling sessions length.
As this value has significant effect on the dynamic halt-polling
algorithm, it should be configurable and exposed.

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Nir Weiner <nir.weiner@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-02-20 22:48:50 +01:00
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arm KVM: Call kvm_arch_memslots_updated() before updating memslots 2019-02-20 22:48:32 +01:00
async_pf.c KVM: fix some typos 2018-12-21 11:28:26 +01:00
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: Add memcg accounting to KVM allocations 2019-02-20 22:48:29 +01:00
coalesced_mmio.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
eventfd.c kvm: Add memcg accounting to KVM allocations 2019-02-20 22:48:29 +01:00
irqchip.c kvm: Add memcg accounting to KVM allocations 2019-02-20 22:48:29 +01:00
Kconfig KVM: arm64: Prevent KVM_COMPAT from being selected 2018-06-21 17:17:50 +01:00
kvm_main.c KVM: Expose the initial start value in grow_halt_poll_ns() as a module parameter 2019-02-20 22:48:50 +01:00
vfio.c kvm: Add memcg accounting to KVM allocations 2019-02-20 22:48:29 +01:00
vfio.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00