Re: [PATCH] kvm-vmx: add module parameter to avoid trapping HLT instructions (v2)

Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-12-03T17:57:48Z

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 09:29:06AM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> That's what Marcelo's suggestion does w/out a fill thread.

There's one complication though even with that. How do we compute the
real utilization of VM (given that it will appear to be burning 100% cycles)?
We need to have scheduler discount the cycles burnt post halt-exit, so more
stuff is needed than those simple 3-4 lines!

- vatsa