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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.rst index 4922e4a15f18..3fae39b1a5ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.rst @@ -119,6 +119,19 @@ These module parameters can be set from the debugfs files in: Note: that these module parameters are system wide values and are not able to be tuned on a per vm basis. +Any changes to these parameters will be picked up by new and existing vCPUs the +next time they halt, with the notable exception of VMs using KVM_CAP_HALT_POLL +(see next section). + +KVM_CAP_HALT_POLL +================= + +KVM_CAP_HALT_POLL is a VM capability that allows userspace to override halt_poll_ns +on a per-VM basis. VMs using KVM_CAP_HALT_POLL ignore halt_poll_ns completely (but +still obey halt_poll_ns_grow, halt_poll_ns_grow_start, and halt_poll_ns_shrink). + +See Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst for more information on this capability. + Further Notes ============= |