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Wanpeng Li 010fd37fdd KVM: LAPIC: Reduce world switch latency caused by timer_advance_ns
All the checks in lapic_timer_int_injected(), __kvm_wait_lapic_expire(), and
these function calls waste cpu cycles when the timer mode is not tscdeadline.
We can observe ~1.3% world switch time overhead by kvm-unit-tests/vmexit.flat
vmcall testing on AMD server. This patch reduces the world switch latency
caused by timer_advance_ns feature when the timer mode is not tscdeadline by
simpling move the check against apic->lapic_timer.expired_tscdeadline much
earlier.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Message-Id: <1599731444-3525-7-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-09-28 07:57:10 -04:00
Documentation Merge branch 'x86-seves-for-paolo' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into HEAD 2020-09-22 06:43:17 -04:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch KVM: LAPIC: Reduce world switch latency caused by timer_advance_ns 2020-09-28 07:57:10 -04:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.