1. 01 3月, 2016 1 次提交
  2. 01 12月, 2015 1 次提交
  3. 16 9月, 2015 1 次提交
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      KVM: add halt_attempted_poll to VCPU stats · 62bea5bf
      Paolo Bonzini 提交于
      This new statistic can help diagnosing VCPUs that, for any reason,
      trigger bad behavior of halt_poll_ns autotuning.
      
      For example, say halt_poll_ns = 480000, and wakeups are spaced exactly
      like 479us, 481us, 479us, 481us. Then KVM always fails polling and wastes
      10+20+40+80+160+320+480 = 1110 microseconds out of every
      479+481+479+481+479+481+479 = 3359 microseconds. The VCPU then
      is consuming about 30% more CPU than it would use without
      polling.  This would show as an abnormally high number of
      attempted polling compared to the successful polls.
      
      Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com<
      Reviewed-by: NDavid Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      62bea5bf
  4. 22 8月, 2015 1 次提交
  5. 28 5月, 2015 1 次提交
  6. 26 5月, 2015 1 次提交
  7. 07 5月, 2015 1 次提交
  8. 06 2月, 2015 1 次提交
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      kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter · f7819512
      Paolo Bonzini 提交于
      This patch introduces a new module parameter for the KVM module; when it
      is present, KVM attempts a bit of polling on every HLT before scheduling
      itself out via kvm_vcpu_block.
      
      This parameter helps a lot for latency-bound workloads---in particular
      I tested it with O_DSYNC writes with a battery-backed disk in the host.
      In this case, writes are fast (because the data doesn't have to go all
      the way to the platters) but they cannot be merged by either the host or
      the guest.  KVM's performance here is usually around 30% of bare metal,
      or 50% if you use cache=directsync or cache=writethrough (these
      parameters avoid that the guest sends pointless flush requests, and
      at the same time they are not slow because of the battery-backed cache).
      The bad performance happens because on every halt the host CPU decides
      to halt itself too.  When the interrupt comes, the vCPU thread is then
      migrated to a new physical CPU, and in general the latency is horrible
      because the vCPU thread has to be scheduled back in.
      
      With this patch performance reaches 60-65% of bare metal and, more
      important, 99% of what you get if you use idle=poll in the guest.  This
      means that the tunable gets rid of this particular bottleneck, and more
      work can be done to improve performance in the kernel or QEMU.
      
      Of course there is some price to pay; every time an otherwise idle vCPUs
      is interrupted by an interrupt, it will poll unnecessarily and thus
      impose a little load on the host.  The above results were obtained with
      a mostly random value of the parameter (500000), and the load was around
      1.5-2.5% CPU usage on one of the host's core for each idle guest vCPU.
      
      The patch also adds a new stat, /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/halt_successful_poll,
      that can be used to tune the parameter.  It counts how many HLT
      instructions received an interrupt during the polling period; each
      successful poll avoids that Linux schedules the VCPU thread out and back
      in, and may also avoid a likely trip to C1 and back for the physical CPU.
      
      While the VM is idle, a Linux 4 VCPU VM halts around 10 times per second.
      Of these halts, almost all are failed polls.  During the benchmark,
      instead, basically all halts end within the polling period, except a more
      or less constant stream of 50 per second coming from vCPUs that are not
      running the benchmark.  The wasted time is thus very low.  Things may
      be slightly different for Windows VMs, which have a ~10 ms timer tick.
      
      The effect is also visible on Marcelo's recently-introduced latency
      test for the TSC deadline timer.  Though of course a non-RT kernel has
      awful latency bounds, the latency of the timer is around 8000-10000 clock
      cycles compared to 20000-120000 without setting halt_poll_ns.  For the TSC
      deadline timer, thus, the effect is both a smaller average latency and
      a smaller variance.
      Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      f7819512
  9. 22 9月, 2014 11 次提交
  10. 29 7月, 2014 2 次提交
  11. 28 7月, 2014 8 次提交
  12. 27 1月, 2014 1 次提交
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      kvm/ppc: IRQ disabling cleanup · 6c85f52b
      Scott Wood 提交于
      Simplify the handling of lazy EE by going directly from fully-enabled
      to hard-disabled.  This replaces the lazy_irq_pending() check
      (including its misplaced kvm_guest_exit() call).
      
      As suggested by Tiejun Chen, move the interrupt disabling into
      kvmppc_prepare_to_enter() rather than have each caller do it.  Also
      move the IRQ enabling on heavyweight exit into
      kvmppc_prepare_to_enter().
      Signed-off-by: NScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
      6c85f52b
  13. 09 1月, 2014 4 次提交
  14. 11 12月, 2013 1 次提交
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      powerpc/kvm/booke: Fix build break due to stack frame size warning · f5f97210
      Scott Wood 提交于
      Commit ce11e48b ("KVM: PPC: E500: Add
      userspace debug stub support") added "struct thread_struct" to the
      stack of kvmppc_vcpu_run().  thread_struct is 1152 bytes on my build,
      compared to 48 bytes for the recently-introduced "struct debug_reg".
      Use the latter instead.
      
      This fixes the following error:
      
      cc1: warnings being treated as errors
      arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c: In function 'kvmppc_vcpu_run':
      arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c:760:1: error: the frame size of 1424 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes
      make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.o] Error 1
      make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kvm] Error 2
      make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
      Signed-off-by: NScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
      f5f97210
  15. 18 10月, 2013 1 次提交
  16. 17 10月, 2013 4 次提交