From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Michael Kelley (EOSG)" <Michael.H.Kelley@microsoft.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 char-misc 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Implement Direct Mode for stimer0
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:20:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180129072050.GA3575@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1517173490-15112-1-git-send-email-mikelley@ntdev.microsoft.com>
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 09:06:48PM +0000, Michael Kelley (EOSG) wrote:
> From: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
>
> The 2016 version of Hyper-V offers the option to operate the guest VM
> per-vcpu stimer's in Direct Mode, which means the timer interupts on its
> own vector rather than queueing a VMbus message. Direct Mode reduces
> timer processing overhead in both the hypervisor and the guest, and
> avoids having timer interrupts pollute the VMbus interrupt stream for
> the synthetic NIC and storage. This patch enables Direct Mode by
> default on stimer0 when running on a version of Hyper-V that supports it,
> with a hv_vmbus module parameter for disabling Direct Mode and reverting
> to the old behavior.
You didn't change the text here as there is no more module parameter :(
> --- a/drivers/hv/hv.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/hv.c
> @@ -27,8 +27,9 @@
> #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> #include <linux/hyperv.h>
> #include <linux/version.h>
> -#include <linux/interrupt.h>
> +#include <linux/random.h>
> #include <linux/clockchips.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
Still need this .h file?
thanks,
greg k-h
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2018-01-28 21:06 [PATCH v3 char-misc 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Implement Direct Mode for stimer0 Michael Kelley (EOSG)
2018-01-29 7:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
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