Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: powernv/pseries: Decrease the snooze residency | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Sat, 30 May 2015 20:38:22 -0500 |
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On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 11:31 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote: > In shared lpar case, spinning in guest context may potentially take > away cycles from other lpars waiting to run on the same physical cpu. > > So the policy in shared lpar case is to let PowerVM hypervisor know > immediately that the guest cpu is idle which will allow the hypervisor > to use the cycles for other tasks/lpars.
But that will have negative side effects under KVM no ?
Suresh mentioned something with his new directed interrupts code that we had many cases where the interrupts ended up arriving shortly after we exited to host for NAP'ing ...
Snooze might fix it...
Ben.
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