Commit e14cf4c6 authored by Paolo Bonzini's avatar Paolo Bonzini Committed by Kleber Sacilotto de Souza

KVM: x86: lower default for halt_poll_ns

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1724614

In some fio benchmarks, halt_poll_ns=400000 caused CPU utilization to
increase heavily even in cases where the performance improvement was
small.  In particular, bandwidth divided by CPU usage was as much as
60% lower.

To some extent this is the expected effect of the patch, and the
additional CPU utilization is only visible when running the
benchmarks.  However, halving the threshold also halves the extra
CPU utilization (from +30-130% to +20-70%) and has no negative
effect on performance.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
(backported from commit b401ee0b)
Signed-off-by: default avatarVictor Tapia <victor.tapia@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKhalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKhalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
parent cdc00788
......@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
#define KVM_PIO_PAGE_OFFSET 1
#define KVM_COALESCED_MMIO_PAGE_OFFSET 2
#define KVM_HALT_POLL_NS_DEFAULT 400000
#define KVM_HALT_POLL_NS_DEFAULT 200000
#define KVM_IRQCHIP_NUM_PINS KVM_IOAPIC_NUM_PINS
......
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