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Commit 74775654 authored by Li RongQing's avatar Li RongQing Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: use cpu_relax when halt polling



SMT siblings share caches and other hardware, and busy halt polling
will degrade its sibling performance if its sibling is working

Sean Christopherson suggested as below:

"Rather than disallowing halt-polling entirely, on x86 it should be
sufficient to simply have the hardware thread yield to its sibling(s)
via PAUSE.  It probably won't get back all performance, but I would
expect it to be close.
This compiles on all KVM architectures, and AFAICT the intended usage
of cpu_relax() is identical for all architectures."

Suggested-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLi RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Message-Id: <20210727111247.55510-1-lirongqing@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 5868b822
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