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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	riel@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] kvm: x86: add halt_poll module parameter
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:18:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54D3C210.8030108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150205175344.GB14367@potion.redhat.com>



On 05/02/2015 18:53, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> >            99% of what you get if you use idle=poll in the guest.
> 
> (Hm, I would have thought that this can outperform idle=poll ...)

It outperforms idle=poll in the host.  A vmexit is probably too cheap to
outperform having idle=poll in the guest.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-05 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-05 16:05 [PATCH RFC] kvm: x86: add halt_poll module parameter Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-05 17:46 ` Rik van Riel
2015-02-05 17:53 ` Radim Krčmář
2015-02-05 19:18   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-02-05 18:55 ` Jan Kiszka
2015-02-05 19:20   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-05 19:23     ` Rik van Riel
2015-02-05 20:14       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-05 20:39 ` David Matlack
2015-02-05 21:24   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-05 23:34 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-02-05 23:47   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-02-06  7:50   ` Paolo Bonzini

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