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8 of a guest can, under some circumstances, be reduced by polling in the host
11 vcpus of a single vcore have ceded, the host kernel polls for wakeup conditions
16 the order of a few micro-seconds, although performance benefits are workload
17 dependant. In the event that no wakeup source arrives during the polling
20 wakeup periods where the time spent halt polling is minimised and the time
27 The powerpc kvm-hv specific case is implemented in:
39 	kvm_vcpu->halt_poll_ns
41 or in the case of powerpc kvm-hv, in the vcore struct:
43 	kvmppc_vcore->halt_poll_ns
47 During polling if a wakeup source is received within the halt polling interval,
48 the interval is left unchanged. In the event that a wakeup source isn't
57 will be received while the host is polling and the latency benefits will be
63 interval then the host will never poll for long enough (limited by the global
64 max) to wakeup during the polling interval so it may as well be shrunk in order
76 		      invoked and a wakeup source received (irrespective of
86 powerpc kvm-hv case.
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130 on a per-VM basis. VMs using KVM_CAP_HALT_POLL ignore halt_poll_ns completely (but
138 - Care should be taken when setting the halt_poll_ns module parameter as a large value
142   global max polling interval (halt_poll_ns) then the host will always poll for the
145 - Halt polling essentially presents a trade off between power usage and latency and
147   essentially converted to host kernel time with the aim of decreasing latency when
150 - Halt polling will only be conducted by the host when no other tasks are runnable on