1. 17 9月, 2015 1 次提交
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      arm/arm64: KVM: Remove 'config KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS' · ef748917
      Ming Lei 提交于
      This patch removes config option of KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS,
      and like other ARCHs, just choose the maximum allowed
      value from hardware, and follows the reasons:
      
      1) from distribution view, the option has to be
      defined as the max allowed value because it need to
      meet all kinds of virtulization applications and
      need to support most of SoCs;
      
      2) using a bigger value doesn't introduce extra memory
      consumption, and the help text in Kconfig isn't accurate
      because kvm_vpu structure isn't allocated until request
      of creating VCPU is sent from QEMU;
      
      3) the main effect is that the field of vcpus[] in 'struct kvm'
      becomes a bit bigger(sizeof(void *) per vcpu) and need more cache
      lines to hold the structure, but 'struct kvm' is one generic struct,
      and it has worked well on other ARCHs already in this way. Also,
      the world switch frequecy is often low, for example, it is ~2000
      when running kernel building load in VM from APM xgene KVM host,
      so the effect is very small, and the difference can't be observed
      in my test at all.
      
      Cc: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
      Reviewed-by: NChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
      ef748917
  2. 17 6月, 2015 1 次提交
  3. 12 3月, 2015 3 次提交
  4. 16 1月, 2015 1 次提交
  5. 07 1月, 2015 1 次提交
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      rcu: Make SRCU optional by using CONFIG_SRCU · 83fe27ea
      Pranith Kumar 提交于
      SRCU is not necessary to be compiled by default in all cases. For tinification
      efforts not compiling SRCU unless necessary is desirable.
      
      The current patch tries to make compiling SRCU optional by introducing a new
      Kconfig option CONFIG_SRCU which is selected when any of the components making
      use of SRCU are selected.
      
      If we do not select CONFIG_SRCU, srcu.o will not be compiled at all.
      
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
         2007       0       0    2007     7d7 kernel/rcu/srcu.o
      
      Size of arch/powerpc/boot/zImage changes from
      
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       831552   64180   23944  919676   e087c arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : before
       829504   64180   23952  917636   e0084 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : after
      
      so the savings are about ~2000 bytes.
      Signed-off-by: NPranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
      CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      CC: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      [ paulmck: resolve conflict due to removal of arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig. ]
      83fe27ea
  6. 28 12月, 2013 1 次提交
  7. 30 10月, 2013 1 次提交
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      arm64: KVM: Yield CPU when vcpu executes a WFE · d241aac7
      Marc Zyngier 提交于
      On an (even slightly) oversubscribed system, spinlocks are quickly
      becoming a bottleneck, as some vcpus are spinning, waiting for a
      lock to be released, while the vcpu holding the lock may not be
      running at all.
      
      The solution is to trap blocking WFEs and tell KVM that we're
      now spinning. This ensures that other vpus will get a scheduling
      boost, allowing the lock to be released more quickly. Also, using
      CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT slightly improves the performance
      when the VM is severely overcommited.
      Acked-by: NChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
      d241aac7
  8. 04 7月, 2013 1 次提交