linux/arch/x86/include
Paolo Bonzini 62bea5bff4 KVM: add halt_attempted_poll to VCPU stats
This new statistic can help diagnosing VCPUs that, for any reason,
trigger bad behavior of halt_poll_ns autotuning.

For example, say halt_poll_ns = 480000, and wakeups are spaced exactly
like 479us, 481us, 479us, 481us. Then KVM always fails polling and wastes
10+20+40+80+160+320+480 = 1110 microseconds out of every
479+481+479+481+479+481+479 = 3359 microseconds. The VCPU then
is consuming about 30% more CPU than it would use without
polling.  This would show as an abnormally high number of
attempted polling compared to the successful polls.

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com<
Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-09-16 12:17:00 +02:00
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asm KVM: add halt_attempted_poll to VCPU stats 2015-09-16 12:17:00 +02:00
uapi/asm libnvdimm for 4.3: 2015-09-08 14:35:59 -07:00