Window is increased on every PLE exit and decreased on every sched_in.
The idea is that we don't want to PLE exit if there is no preemption
going on.
We do this with sched_in() because it does not hold rq lock.
There are two new kernel parameters for changing the window:
ple_window_grow and ple_window_shrink
ple_window_grow affects the window on PLE exit and ple_window_shrink
does it on sched_in; depending on their value, the window is modifier
like this: (ple_window is kvm_intel's global)
ple_window_shrink/ |
ple_window_grow | PLE exit | sched_in
-------------------+--------------------+---------------------
< 1 | = ple_window | = ple_window
< ple_window | *= ple_window_grow | /= ple_window_shrink
otherwise | += ple_window_grow | -= ple_window_shrink
A third new parameter, ple_window_max, controls the maximal ple_window;
it is internally rounded down to a closest multiple of ple_window_grow.
VCPU's PLE window is never allowed below ple_window.
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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