2016-05-24 14:59 GMT+08:00 Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On 05/24/2016 04:25 AM, Wanpeng Li wrote: >> 2016-05-24 10:19 GMT+08:00 Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> 2016-05-24 2:01 GMT+08:00 David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>>> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> >>>> I'm ok with this patch, but I'd like to better understand the target >>>> workloads. What type of workloads do you expect to benefit from this? >>> >>> dynticks guests I think is one of workloads which can get benefit, >>> there are lots of upcoming fire timers captured by my feature. Even >>> during TCP testing. And also the workload of Yang's. >> >> Do you think I should add an module parameter to enable/disable it >> during module insmod or current patch is fine? > > What about getting rid of this hunk > > - val = 10000; > + val = halt_poll_ns_base; > > > and then rename "halt_poll_ns_base" into "halt_poll_ns_timer" that > can be changed as module parameter? Good idea, actually I remember Paolo mentioned to change this as an module parameter in another thread. > > I also experimented with an s390 implementation, which seems pretty straightforward. > It is probably something like the following (whitespace damaged due to pcopy/paste) > and needs more testing. Great work, Christian. I will send out a new version w/ module parameter. Regards, Wanpeng Li -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
