Re: [PATCH 3/4] arm64: KVM: let other tasks run when hitting WFE

Raghavendra KT
2013-07-22T08:53:51Z

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote:
> So far, when a guest executes WFE (like when waiting for a spinlock
> to become unlocked), we don't do a thing and let it run uninterrupted.
>
> Another option is to trap a blocking WFE and offer the opportunity
> to the scheduler to switch to another task, potentially giving the
> vcpu holding the spinlock a chance to run sooner.
>

Idea looks to be correct from my experiments on x86. It does bring some
percentage of benefits in overcommitted guests. Infact,

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/22/41 tries to do the same thing for x86.
(this results in using ple handler heuristics in vcpu_block pach).