From b4a2d31da812ce03efaf5d30c6b9d39c1cbd18d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Radim=20Kr=C4=8Dm=C3=A1=C5=99?= Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:08:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: dynamise PLE window MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Window is increased on every PLE exit and decreased on every sched_in. The idea is that we don't want to PLE exit if there is no preemption going on. We do this with sched_in() because it does not hold rq lock. There are two new kernel parameters for changing the window: ple_window_grow and ple_window_shrink ple_window_grow affects the window on PLE exit and ple_window_shrink does it on sched_in; depending on their value, the window is modifier like this: (ple_window is kvm_intel's global) ple_window_shrink/ | ple_window_grow | PLE exit | sched_in -------------------+--------------------+--------------------- < 1 | = ple_window | = ple_window < ple_window | *= ple_window_grow | /= ple_window_shrink otherwise | += ple_window_grow | -= ple_window_shrink A third new parameter, ple_window_max, controls the maximal ple_window; it is internally rounded down to a closest multiple of ple_window_grow. VCPU's PLE window is never allowed below ple_window. Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- Reading git-format-patch failed