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Commit 00c25bce authored by Rik van Riel's avatar Rik van Riel Committed by Marcelo Tosatti
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KVM: VMX: increase ple_gap default to 128



On some CPUs, a ple_gap of 41 is simply insufficient to ever trigger
PLE exits, even with the minimalistic PLE test from kvm-unit-tests.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/kvm-unit-tests.git;a=commitdiff;h=eda71b28fa122203e316483b35f37aaacd42f545

For example, the Xeon X5670 CPU needs a ple_gap of at least 48 in
order to get pause loop exits:

# modprobe kvm_intel ple_gap=47
# taskset 1 /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -device testdev,chardev=log -chardev stdio,id=log \
  -kernel x86/vmexit.flat -append ple-round-robin -smp 2
VNC server running on `::1:5900'
enabling apic
enabling apic
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# rmmod kvm_intel
# modprobe kvm_intel ple_gap=48
# taskset 1 /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
   -device testdev,chardev=log -chardev stdio,id=log \
   -kernel x86/vmexit.flat -append ple-round-robin -smp 2
VNC server running on `::1:5900'
enabling apic
enabling apic
ple-round-robin 36616

Increase the ple_gap to 128 to be on the safe side.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarZhai, Edwin <edwin.zhai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
parent 3781c01c
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