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Commit 00751da0 authored by Marc Zyngier's avatar Marc Zyngier Committed by Will Deacon
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kvmtool: ARM: timers: add "always-on" property to the device tree



The new optional property "always-on" indicates that the timers
are, well, always on when used with KVM.

This allows for substantial performance improvement in the guest
(it switches to NOHZ instead of using a periodic tick per vcpu)
and removes a lot of burden from the host (no need to inject tons
of interrupts with the associated rescheduling overhead).

Old kernels that don't understand this property will simply ignore it.

Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
parent 492aa8f3
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