From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/8] KVM: x86: replace hrtimer based timer emulation
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:41:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A54A202.9080602@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090706015812.786509491@localhost.localdomain>
On 07/06/2009 04:55 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Replace hrtimer based timer emulation with host timebase (ktime_t)
> comparisons on guest entry.
>
> This avoids host load when guests are scheduled out, removes a
> spinlock acquision on entry (i8254.c's inject_lock), and makes future
> improvements easier.
>
I wonder if we're really winning with this. Guests should be
scheduled-out-but-not-halted rarely, and in all other cases we need to
keep the timer. A timer comparison on each guest entry might be
expensive (maybe not so much with tsc based timers).
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-08 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-06 1:55 [patch 0/8] RFC: in-kernel timer emulation changes Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-06 1:55 ` [patch 1/8] KVM: timer interface unification Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-08 13:33 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-06 1:55 ` [patch 2/8] KVM: move lapic timer ack to EOI handler Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-06 1:55 ` [patch 3/8] KVM: x86: per-vcpu timer list Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-06 1:55 ` [patch 4/8] KVM: x86: replace hrtimer based timer emulation Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-08 12:58 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-07-08 13:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-08 13:39 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-07-08 15:42 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-08 16:13 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-07-08 16:29 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-07-08 16:37 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-08 16:40 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-07-08 16:47 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-08 13:41 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-07-08 16:24 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-08 16:36 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-06 1:55 ` [patch 5/8] KVM: timer: honor noreinject tunable Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-06 1:55 ` [patch 6/8] KVM: timer: optimize next_timer_event and vcpu_arm_exit Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-06 1:55 ` [patch 7/8] KVM: PIT: removed unused code Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-06 1:55 ` [patch 8/8] kvmctl: time testcase Marcelo Tosatti
2009-07-08 13:43 ` [patch 0/8] RFC: in-kernel timer emulation changes Avi Kivity
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