Re: [v7 0/8] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference

[Avi Kivity]

On 02/02/2012 05:34 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:34:25AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 02/01/2012 10:13 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Could we also apply the same approach to processors busy doing
> > > > computational work? In that case the OS is also not needed. Interrupting
> > > > these activities is impacting on performance and latency.
> > >
> > > Yep, that is in fact what Frederic's dyntick-idle userspace work does.
> > 
> > Running in a guest is a special case of running in userspace, so we'd
> > need to extend this work to kvm as well.
>
> As long as rcu_idle_enter() is called at the appropriate time, RCU will
> happily ignore the CPU.  ;-)
>

It's not called (since the cpu is not idle).  Instead we call
rcu_virt_note_context_switch().

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