Started working on bringing the PLE(pause loop exit) logic from VMX to SVM. We noticed some improvements in certain cases where numerious pause is generated. Please take a look. If you have any suggestions to make things better, let me know. Babu Moger (3): arch/x86/kvm: SVM: Introduce pause filter threshold arch/x86/kvm: VMX: Bring the common code to header file arch/x86/kvm: SVM: Introduce pause loop exit logic in SVM arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h | 3 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 53 ++++----------------- arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 35 ++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1