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| author | Felipe Franciosi <felipe@nutanix.com> | 2017-05-19 22:29:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2017-06-07 18:22:03 +0200 |
| commit | 90bb0c04214545beb75044a2742f711335103269 (patch) | |
| tree | b04906444df0d47afdc93ad612aac4c4a1861d64 /docs/devel/atomics.txt | |
| parent | d870cfdea5b5fc7934cacc9786f185d741eab308 (diff) | |
cpus: reset throttle_thread_scheduled after sleep
Currently, the throttle_thread_scheduled flag is reset back to 0 before
sleeping (as part of the throttling logic). Given that throttle_timer
(well, any timer) may tick with a slight delay, it so happens that under
heavy throttling (ie. close or on CPU_THROTTLE_PCT_MAX) the tick may
schedule a further cpu_throttle_thread() work item after the flag reset,
but before the previous sleep completed. This results on the vCPU thread
sleeping continuously for potentially several seconds in a row.
The chances of that happening can be drastically minimised by resetting
the flag after the sleep.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Franciosi <felipe@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Crossley <malcolm@nutanix.com>
Message-Id: <1495229390-18909-1-git-send-email-felipe@nutanix.com>
Acked-by: Jason J. Herne <jjherne@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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