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authorBabu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>2018-03-16 16:37:26 -0400
committerRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>2018-03-28 22:47:06 +0200
commit8566ac8b8e7cac5814fb744ff5159d1797a1a6bd (patch)
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parent1d8fb44a728b7a34604307976a7d2a003bc84f16 (diff)
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KVM: SVM: Implement pause loop exit logic in SVM
Bring the PLE(pause loop exit) logic to AMD svm driver. While testing, we found this helping in situations where numerous pauses are generated. Without these patches we could see continuos VMEXITS due to pause interceptions. Tested it on AMD EPYC server with boot parameter idle=poll on a VM with 32 vcpus to simulate extensive pause behaviour. Here are VMEXITS in 10 seconds interval. Pauses 810199 504 Total 882184 325415 Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com> [Prevented the window from dropping below the initial value. - Radim] Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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