[PATCH][SRU][Xenial] KVM: x86: lower default for halt_poll_ns

[Victor Tapia]

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>

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: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar at redhat.com>
(backported from commit b401ee0b85a53e89739ff68a5b1a0667d664afc9)
Signed-off-by: Victor Tapia <victor.tapia at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 40be363..4028beb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -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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