[v2 0/6] KVM: arm64: implement vcpu_is_preempted check

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Fri Nov 4 02:02:00 PDT 2022


On Fri, 04 Nov 2022 06:20:59 +0000,
Usama Arif <usama.arif at bytedance.com> wrote:
> 
> This patchset adds support for vcpu_is_preempted in arm64, which allows the guest
> to check if a vcpu was scheduled out, which is useful to know incase it was
> holding a lock. vcpu_is_preempted can be used to improve
> performance in locking (see owner_on_cpu usage in mutex_spin_on_owner,
> mutex_can_spin_on_owner, rtmutex_spin_on_owner and osq_lock) and scheduling
> (see available_idle_cpu which is used in several places in kernel/sched/fair.c
> for e.g. in wake_affine to determine which CPU can run soonest):

Please refrain from reposting a series only two days after the initial
one. One week is a minimum, and only if there is enough review
comments to justify a respin (there were no valuable comments so far).

Reposting more often only results in the review process being
exponentially delayed.

Thanks,

	M.

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