x86/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check
authorPan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 2 Nov 2016 09:08:35 +0000 (05:08 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:48:08 +0000 (12:48 +0100)
commit0b9f6c4615c993d2b552e0d2bd1ade49b56e5beb
treead86293bc792f8035ff78421370793da8c786868
parent4ec6e863625625a54f527464ab91ce1a1cb16c42
x86/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check

Support the vcpu_is_preempted() functionality under KVM. This will
enhance lock performance on overcommitted hosts (more runnable vCPUs
than physical CPUs in the system) as doing busy waits for preempted
vCPUs will hurt system performance far worse than early yielding.

Use struct kvm_steal_time::preempted to indicate that if a vCPU
is running or not.

Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: xen-devel-request@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478077718-37424-9-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Typo fixes. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c