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:Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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