commit b31c114b82b2b55913d2cf744e6a665c2ca090ac
author Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Mon Mar 12 04:53:04 2018 -0700
committer Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Fri Mar 16 22:03:53 2018 +0100
tree 56aabff42789a37caea34841c397c5caf066bd34
parent caa057a2cad647fb368a12c8e6c410ac4c28e063

KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable PAUSE intercepts

Allow to disable pause loop exit/pause filtering on a per VM basis.

If some VMs have dedicated host CPUs, they won't be negatively affected
due to needlessly intercepted PAUSE instructions.

Thanks to Jan H. Schönherr's initial patch.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>