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    KVM: PPC: Decrease the powerpc default halt poll max value · f4944613
    Suraj Jitindar Singh authored
    KVM_HALT_POLL_NS_DEFAULT is an arch specific constant which sets the
    default value of the halt_poll_ns kvm module parameter which determines
    the global maximum halt polling interval.
    
    The current value for powerpc is 500000 (500us) which means that any
    repetitive workload with a period of less than that can drive the cpu
    usage to 100% where it may have been mostly idle without halt polling.
    This presents the possibility of a large increase in power usage with
    a comparatively small performance benefit.
    
    Reduce the default to 10000 (10us) and a user can tune this themselves
    to set their affinity for halt polling based on the trade off between power
    and performance which they are willing to make.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSuraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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