From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eduardo Habkost Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] kvm: support -overcommit cpu-pm=on|off Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 10:43:35 -0300 Message-ID: <20180627134335.GC914@localhost.localdomain> References: <20180622192148.178309-1-mst@redhat.com> <20180622192148.178309-2-mst@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Paolo Bonzini , Marcelo Tosatti , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Richard Henderson To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180622192148.178309-2-mst@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel2=m.gmane.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 10:22:05PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > With this flag, kvm allows guest to control host CPU power state. This > increases latency for other processes using same host CPU in an > unpredictable way, but if decreases idle entry/exit times for the > running VCPU, so to use it QEMU needs a hint about whether host CPU is > overcommitted, hence the flag name. > > Follow-up patches will expose this capability to guest > (using mwait leaf). > > Based on a patch by Wanpeng Li . > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost -- Eduardo