Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] KVM: dynamic halt_poll_ns adjustment

[Wanpeng Li]

On 9/3/15 3:31 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 02/09/2015 21:23, David Matlack wrote:
> > I actually wasn't thinking about vcpu->halt_poll_ns though. If
> > single_task_running() breaks us out of the loop we will "goto out" instead
> > of scheduling. My suspicion is this will cause us to loop calling
> > kvm_vcpu_block and starve the waiting task (at least until need_resched()),
> > which would break the "only hog the cpu when idle" aspect of halt-polling.
> That's definitely a bug, yes.

Ok, I will send out v7 to fix this in this sunday since there is 
vacation in my country currently.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li

> Paolo

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