2016-05-02 18:42 GMT+08:00 Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>: [...] > Some wakeups should not be considered a sucessful poll. For example on > s390 I/O interrupts are usually floating, which means that _ALL_ CPUs > would be considered runnable - letting all vCPUs poll all the time for > transactional like workload, even if one vCPU would be enough. > This can result in huge CPU usage for large guests. > This patch lets architectures provide a way to qualify wakeups if they > should be considered a good/bad wakeups in regard to polls. > > For s390 the implementation will fence of halt polling for anything but > known good, single vCPU events. The s390 implementation for floating > interrupts does a wakeup for one vCPU, but the interrupt will be delivered > by whatever CPU comes first. To limit the halt polling we only mark the If the floating interrupt means that the 'CPU comes first' will deliver the interrupt to all vCPUs? Regrads, Wanpeng Li -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
