[PATCH][retry 3] Support Pause Filter in AMD processors

From 8ec340648103510095ff339b914706c81e9d815d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Langsdorf mark.langsd...@amd.com Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 22:12:51 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Support Pause Filter in AMD processors New AMD processors (Family 0x10 models 8+) support the Pause Filter Feature

[PATCH][retry 2] Support Pause Filter in AMD processors

From 66741f741da741e58e8162ef7809dd7d6f8e01cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Langsdorf mark.langsd...@amd.com Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:32:33 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Support Pause Filter in AMD processors New AMD processors (Family 0x10 models 8+) support the Pause Filter Feature

[PATCH][KVM][2/2] Support Pause Filter in AMD processors

that guaranteed that yielding proccess would not be immediately rescheduled. Further performance improvement may be possible with a more sophisticated yield algorithm. -Mark Langsdorf Operating System Research Center AMD Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf mark.langsd...@amd.com --- arch/x86/include/asm

[PATCH][KVM][retry 4] Add support for Pause Filtering to AMD SVM

. On a 24 core system running 4 guests each with 16 VCPUs, this patch improved overall performance of each guest's 32 job kernbench by approximately 1%. Further performance improvement may be possible with a more sophisticated yield algorithm. -Mark Langsdorf Operating System Research Center AMD

[PATCH][KVM][retry 3] Add support for Pause Filtering to AMD SVM

by approximately 1%. Further performance improvement may be possible with a more sophisticated yield algorithm. -Mark Langsdorf Operating System Research Center AMD Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf mark.langsd...@amd.com --- arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h |3 ++- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 13

[PATCH][KVM][retry 2] Add support for Pause Filtering to AMD SVM

From 01813db8627e74018c8cec90df7e345839351f23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Langsdorf mark.langsd...@amd.com Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 09:44:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add support for Pause Filtering to AMD SVM This feature creates a new field in the VMCB called Pause Filter Count. If Pause

[PATCH][KVM][retry 1] Add support for Pause Filtering to AMD SVM

of each guest's 32 job kernbench by approximately 1%. Further performance improvement may be possible with a more sophisticated yield algorithm. -Mark Langsdorf Operating System Research Center AMD Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf mark.langsd...@amd.com diff