Re: [PATCH RFC hack dont apply] intel_idle: support running within a VM

Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-10-04T20:18:25Z

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 11:02:55PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> > There is the series from Audrey which makes use of the various idle
>> > prediction mechanisms, scheduler, irq timings, idle governor to get an idea
>> > about the estimated idle time. Exactly this information can be fed to the
>> > kvmidle driver which can act accordingly.
>> >
>> > Hacking a random hardware specific idle driver is definitely the wrong
>> > approach. It might be useful to chain the kvmidle driver and hardware
>> > specific drivers at some point, i.e. if the kvmdriver decides not to exit
>> > it delegates the mwait decision to the proper hardware driver in order not
>> > to reimplement all the required logic again.
>>
>> By making changes to idle core to allow that chaining?
>> Does this sound like something reasonable?
>
> At least for me it makes sense to avoid code duplication.

Well, I agree.

Thanks,
Rafael