KVM: X86: Implement PV sched yield hypercall
The target vCPUs are in runnable state after vcpu_kick and suitable as a yield target. This patch implements the sched yield hypercall. 17% performance increasement of ebizzy benchmark can be observed in an over-subscribe environment. (w/ kvm-pv-tlb disabled, testing TLB flush call-function IPI-many since call-function is not easy to be trigged by userspace workload). Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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