[PATCH 0/2] KVM: add support for Pause-Loop exit

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Fri Mar 5 14:42:20 UTC 2010


Add kernel side support for KVM Pause-Loop exit.  This allows long lock
spins in virtual machines to relinquish CPUs to other VMs.

-apw

Zhai, Edwin (2):
  KVM: introduce kvm_vcpu_on_spin
  KVM: VMX: Add support for Pause-Loop Exiting

 arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h |    4 +++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c         |   51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/linux/kvm_host.h   |    1 +
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c        |   15 +++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)





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