Re: [PATCH 1/1] kvm : vmx : Remove yield_on_hlt

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Tue Feb 07 2012 - 16:18:27 EST


On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:19:20PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> yield_on_hlt was introduced for CPU bandwidth capping. now it is redundant
> with CFS hardlimit.
>
> yield_on_hlt also complicates the scenario in paravirtual environment, that
> needs to trap halt. for e.g. paravirtualized ticket spinlocks.
>
> Changelog:
> Remove the support for yield_on_hlt.
>
> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

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