linux/arch
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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alpha Kbuild late updates for v4.21 2019-01-06 16:33:10 -08:00
arc ARCv2: lib: memeset: fix doing prefetchw outside of buffer 2019-01-17 16:24:39 -08:00
arm xen: fixes for 5.0-rc6 2019-02-09 09:44:08 -08:00
arm64 ARM: SoC fixes for linux-5.0 2019-02-08 16:23:41 -08:00
c6x arch: unexport asm/shmparam.h for all architectures 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
csky csky: fixup compile error with CPU 810. 2019-01-10 04:37:37 -08:00
h8300 arch: unexport asm/shmparam.h for all architectures 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
hexagon arch: unexport asm/shmparam.h for all architectures 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
ia64 ia64: remove redundant 'export AWK' 2019-01-16 23:31:18 +09:00
m68k for-linus-20190209 2019-02-09 10:26:09 -08:00
microblaze arch: unexport asm/shmparam.h for all architectures 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
mips KVM: Call kvm_arch_memslots_updated() before updating memslots 2019-02-20 22:48:32 +01:00
nds32 nds32: remove unneeded code in arch/nds32/Makefile 2019-01-17 23:42:37 +09:00
nios2 arch: remove redundant UAPI generic-y defines 2019-01-06 10:22:15 +09:00
openrisc arch: unexport asm/shmparam.h for all architectures 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
parisc arch: remove redundant UAPI generic-y defines 2019-01-06 10:22:15 +09:00
powerpc KVM: Expose the initial start value in grow_halt_poll_ns() as a module parameter 2019-02-20 22:48:50 +01:00
riscv riscv: Adjust mmap base address at a third of task size 2019-01-25 10:50:53 -08:00
s390 KVM: Call kvm_arch_memslots_updated() before updating memslots 2019-02-20 22:48:32 +01:00
sh Kbuild late updates for v4.21 2019-01-06 16:33:10 -08:00
sparc arch: remove redundant UAPI generic-y defines 2019-01-06 10:22:15 +09:00
um Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-01-05 09:16:18 -08:00
unicore32 arch: unexport asm/shmparam.h for all architectures 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
x86 KVM: x86/mmu: Consolidate kvm_mmu_zap_all() and kvm_mmu_zap_mmio_sptes() 2019-02-20 22:48:49 +01:00
xtensa xtensa: SMP: limit number of possible CPUs by NR_CPUS 2019-01-27 10:04:30 -08:00
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Kconfig jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00