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Revision 46dc111dfe47bf47f23884cade3c8a355be87c8c authored by Linus Torvalds on 27 April 2018, 23:13:31 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 27 April 2018, 23:13:31 UTC 
rMerge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
 
Pull KVM fixes from Radim Krčmář:
 "ARM:
   - PSCI selection API, a leftover from 4.16 (for stable)
   - Kick vcpu on active interrupt affinity change
   - Plug a VMID allocation race on oversubscribed systems
   - Silence debug messages
   - Update Christoffer's email address (linaro -> arm)

  x86:
   - Expose userspace-relevant bits of a newly added feature
   - Fix TLB flushing on VMX with VPID, but without EPT"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  x86/headers/UAPI: Move DISABLE_EXITS KVM capability bits to the UAPI
  kvm: apic: Flush TLB after APIC mode/address change if VPIDs are in use
  arm/arm64: KVM: Add PSCI version selection API
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Kick new VCPU on interrupt migration
  arm64: KVM: Demote SVE and LORegion warnings to debug only
  MAINTAINERS: Update e-mail address for Christoffer Dall
  KVM: arm/arm64: Close VMID generation race
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Tip revision: 46dc111dfe47bf47f23884cade3c8a355be87c8c authored by Linus Torvalds on 27 April 2018, 23:13:31 UTC
rMerge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Tip revision: 46dc111
Kconfig.preempt 

choice
	prompt "Preemption Model"
	default PREEMPT_NONE

config PREEMPT_NONE
	bool "No Forced Preemption (Server)"
	help
	  This is the traditional Linux preemption model, geared towards
	  throughput. It will still provide good latencies most of the
	  time, but there are no guarantees and occasional longer delays
	  are possible.

	  Select this option if you are building a kernel for a server or
	  scientific/computation system, or if you want to maximize the
	  raw processing power of the kernel, irrespective of scheduling
	  latencies.

config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
	bool "Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)"
	help
	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel by adding more
	  "explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new
	  preemption points have been selected to reduce the maximum
	  latency of rescheduling, providing faster application reactions,
	  at the cost of slightly lower throughput.

	  This allows reaction to interactive events by allowing a
	  low priority process to voluntarily preempt itself even if it
	  is in kernel mode executing a system call. This allows
	  applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the system is
	  under load.

	  Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop system.

config PREEMPT
	bool "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)"
	select PREEMPT_COUNT
	select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK if !ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
	help
	  This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making
	  all kernel code (that is not executing in a critical section)
	  preemptible.  This allows reaction to interactive events by
	  permitting a low priority process to be preempted involuntarily
	  even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call and would
	  otherwise not be about to reach a natural preemption point.
	  This allows applications to run more 'smoothly' even when the
	  system is under load, at the cost of slightly lower throughput
	  and a slight runtime overhead to kernel code.

	  Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop or
	  embedded system with latency requirements in the milliseconds
	  range.

endchoice

config PREEMPT_COUNT
       bool
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