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Remove support for specifying a static local APIC timer advancement value, and instead present a read-only boolean parameter to let userspace enable or disable KVM's dynamic APIC timer advancement. Realistically, it's all but impossible for userspace to specify an advancement that is more precise than what KVM's adaptive tuning can provide. E.g. a static value needs to be tuned for the exact hardware and kernel, and if KVM is using hrtimers, likely requires additional tuning for the exact configuration of the entire system. Dropping support for a userspace provided value also fixes several flaws in the interface. E.g. KVM interprets a negative value other than -1 as a large advancement, toggling between a negative and positive value yields unpredictable behavior as vCPUs will switch from dynamic to static advancement, changing the advancement in the middle of VM creation can result in different values for vCPUs within a VM, etc. Those flaws are mostly fixable, but there's almost no justification for taking on yet more complexity (it's minimal complexity, but still non-zero). The only arguments against using KVM's adaptive tuning is if a setup needs a higher maximum, or if the adjustments are too reactive, but those are arguments for letting userspace control the absolute max advancement and the granularity of each adjustment, e.g. similar to how KVM provides knobs for halt polling. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240520115334.852510-1-zhoushuling@huawei.com Cc: Shuling Zhou <zhoushuling@huawei.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20240522010304.1650603-1-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.