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From:   Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 15 May 2018 09:33:28 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] KVM: X86: Lower the default timer frequency limit to 200us
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
        =?UTF-8?B?UmFkaW0gS3LEjW3DocWZ?= <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
        Anthoine Bourgeois <anthoine.bourgeois@blade-group.com>,
        Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>,
        Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
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2018-05-05 19:02 GMT+08:00 Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>:
> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
>
> Anthoine reported:
>  The period used by Windows change over time but it can be 1
>  milliseconds or less. I saw the limit_periodic_timer_frequency
>  print so 500 microseconds is sometimes reached.
>
> As suggested by Paolo, lower the default timer frequency limit to a
> smaller interval of 200 us (5000 Hz) to leave some headroom. This
> is required due to Windows 10 changing the scheduler tick limit
> from 1024 Hz to 2048 Hz.
>
> Reported-by: Anthoine Bourgeois <anthoine.bourgeois@blade-group.com>
> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Radim Kr=C4=8Dm=C3=A1=C5=99 <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
> Cc: Anthoine Bourgeois <anthoine.bourgeois@blade-group.com>
> Cc: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
> ---
> v2 -> v3:
>  * update patch subject and description
> v1 -> v2:
>  * update patch subject and description
>
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 51ecd38..dc47073 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ module_param(ignore_msrs, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
>  static bool __read_mostly report_ignored_msrs =3D true;
>  module_param(report_ignored_msrs, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
>
> -unsigned int min_timer_period_us =3D 500;
> +unsigned int min_timer_period_us =3D 200;
>  module_param(min_timer_period_us, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
>
>  static bool __read_mostly kvmclock_periodic_sync =3D true;
> --
> 2.7.4
>