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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2018-05-17 17:54:24 +0300
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2018-05-17 20:12:13 +0300
commit633711e82878dc29083fc5d2605166755e25b57a (patch)
tree7abc99cfd5b05e144b41d7b56a4b929cf7a1e19d /Documentation/virtual
parent711702b57cc3c50b84bd648de0f1ca0a378805be (diff)
downloadlinux-633711e82878dc29083fc5d2605166755e25b57a.tar.xz
kvm: rename KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED to KVM_HINTS_REALTIME
KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED seems to be somewhat confusing: Guest doesn't really care whether it's the only task running on a host CPU as long as it's not preempted. And there are more reasons for Guest to be preempted than host CPU sharing, for example, with memory overcommit it can get preempted on a memory access, post copy migration can cause preemption, etc. Let's call it KVM_HINTS_REALTIME which seems to better match what guests expect. Also, the flag most be set on all vCPUs - current guests assume this. Note so in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt
index d4f33eb805dd..ab022dcd0911 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT || 24 || host will warn if no guest-side
flag || value || meaning
==================================================================================
-KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED || 0 || guest checks this feature bit to
- || || determine if there is vCPU pinning
- || || and there is no vCPU over-commitment,
+KVM_HINTS_REALTIME || 0 || guest checks this feature bit to
+ || || determine that vCPUs are never
+ || || preempted for an unlimited time,
|| || allowing optimizations
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