On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Suraj Jitindar Singh
wrote:
> vcpu stats are used to collect information about a vcpu which can be viewed
> in the debugfs. For example halt_attempted_poll and halt_successful_poll
> are used to keep track of the number of times the vcpu attempts to and
> successf
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Suraj Jitindar Singh
wrote:
> This patch introduces new halt polling functionality into the kvm_hv kernel
> module. When a vcore is idle it will poll for some period of time before
> scheduling itself out.
Is there any way to reuse the existing halt-polling code?
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> On 11/07/2016 18:57, David Matlack wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Suraj Jitindar Singh
>> wrote:
>> > This patch introduces new halt polling functionality into the kvm_hv kernel
>> > module. When a vcore is idle it will pol
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> On 11/07/2016 19:30, David Matlack wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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>>> On 11/07/2016 18:51, David Matlack wrote:
>> vcpus have statistics associated with them which can be viewed within the
>
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Suraj Jitindar Singh
wrote:
> On 12/07/16 16:17, Suraj Jitindar Singh wrote:
>> On 12/07/16 02:49, David Matlack wrote:
[snip]
>>> It's possible to poll and wait in one halt, conflating this stat with
>>> polling time. Is it useful to split out a third stat,
>>> h
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Suraj Jitindar Singh
wrote:
> This patch introduces new halt polling functionality into the kvm_hv kernel
> module. When a vcore is idle it will poll for some period of time before
> scheduling itself out.
>
> When all of the runnable vcpus on a vcore have ceded (a
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Suraj Jitindar Singh
wrote:
> vms and vcpus have statistics associated with them which can be viewed
> within the debugfs. Currently it is assumed within the vcpu_stat_get() and
> vm_stat_get() functions that all of these statistics are represented as
> u32s, howev
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Suraj Jitindar Singh
wrote:
> vcpu stats are used to collect information about a vcpu which can be viewed
> in the debugfs. For example halt_attempted_poll and halt_successful_poll
> are used to keep track of the number of times the vcpu attempts to and
> successfu
