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Hello, This small series deals with some weirdness in the mechanism with which the credit scheduler choses what PCPU to tickle upon a VCPU wake-up. Details are available in the changelog of the first patch. The new approach has been extensively benchmarked and proved itself either beneficial or harmless. That means it does not introduce any significant amount of overhead and/or performances

...return 1; + default: + BUG(); + } + return 0; +} + +static void __set_cpu_idle(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) +{ + BUG_ON(vcpu->vcpu_id > KVM_MAX_VCPUS - 1); + atomic_set_mask(CPUSTAT_WAIT, &vcpu->arch.sie_block->cpuflags); + set_bit(vcpu->vcpu_id, vcpu->arch.local_int.float_int->idle_mask); +} + +static void __unset_cpu_idle(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) +{ + BUG_ON(vcpu->vcpu_id > KVM_MAX_VCPUS - 1); + atomic_clear_mask(CPUSTAT_WAIT, &vcpu->arch.sie_block->cpuflags); + clear_bit(vcpu->vcpu_id, vcpu->arch.local_int.float_int->idle_mask); +} + +static void __reset_i...

This patch series introduces a backend for kvm to run on IBM System z machines that uses the mainframe's sie virtualization capability. This work runs 64bit guests on z800/z890/z900/z990/z9/z10 class machines with a 64bit linux host. Userspace will follow once we're done brushing it over. The patch queue consists of the following patches, which can be applied in sequence on top of kvm.git

This patch series introduces a backend for kvm to run on IBM System z machines that uses the mainframe's sie virtualization capability. This work runs 64bit guests on z800/z890/z900/z990/z9/z10 class machines with a 64bit linux host. Userspace will follow once we're done brushing it over. The patch queue consists of the following patches, which can be applied in sequence on top of kvm.git