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Bring the PLE(pause loop exit) logic to AMD svm driver. While testing, we found this helping in situations where numerous pauses are generated. Without these patches we could see continuos VMEXITS due to pause interceptions. Tested it on AMD EPYC server with boot parameter idle=poll on a VM with 32 vcpus to simulate extensive pause behaviour. Here are VMEXITS in 10 seconds interval. Pauses 810199 504 Total 882184 325415 Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com> [Prevented the window from dropping below the initial value. - Radim] Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.