KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Run virtual core whenever any vcpus in it can run
Currently the Book3S HV code implements a policy on multi-threaded processors (i.e. POWER7) that requires all of the active vcpus in a virtual core to be ready to run before we run the virtual core. However, that causes problems on reset, because reset stops all vcpus except vcpu 0, and can also reduce throughput since all four threads in a virtual core have to wait whenever any one of them hits a hypervisor page fault. This relaxes the policy, allowing the virtual core to run as soon as any vcpu in it is runnable. With this, the KVMPPC_VCPU_STOPPED state and the KVMPPC_VCPU_BUSY_IN_HOST state have been combined into a single KVMPPC_VCPU_NOTREADY state, since we no longer need to distinguish between them. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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