RE: [PATCH 0/9] Dynamic Pause Loop Exiting window.

2014-08-20 Thread Zhao, Hui-Zhi (Steven, HPservers-Core-OE-PSC)
OE-PSC) Subject: [PATCH 0/9] Dynamic Pause Loop Exiting window. PLE does not scale in its current form. When increasing VCPU count above 150, one can hit soft lockups because of runqueue lock contention. (Which says a lot about performance.) The main reason is that kvm_ple_loop cycles through all V

[PATCH 0/9] Dynamic Pause Loop Exiting window.

2014-08-19 Thread Radim Krčmář
PLE does not scale in its current form. When increasing VCPU count above 150, one can hit soft lockups because of runqueue lock contention. (Which says a lot about performance.) The main reason is that kvm_ple_loop cycles through all VCPUs. Replacing it with a scalable solution would be ideal, bu