1. 10 3月, 2015 10 次提交
  2. 12 2月, 2015 1 次提交
  3. 09 2月, 2015 1 次提交
  4. 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
  5. 29 1月, 2015 1 次提交
  6. 28 1月, 2015 1 次提交
  7. 16 1月, 2015 2 次提交
  8. 09 1月, 2015 1 次提交
  9. 28 12月, 2014 2 次提交
  10. 04 12月, 2014 6 次提交
  11. 26 11月, 2014 1 次提交
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      kvm: fix kvm_is_mmio_pfn() and rename to kvm_is_reserved_pfn() · d3fccc7e
      Ard Biesheuvel 提交于
      This reverts commit 85c8555f ("KVM: check for !is_zero_pfn() in
      kvm_is_mmio_pfn()") and renames the function to kvm_is_reserved_pfn.
      
      The problem being addressed by the patch above was that some ARM code
      based the memory mapping attributes of a pfn on the return value of
      kvm_is_mmio_pfn(), whose name indeed suggests that such pfns should
      be mapped as device memory.
      
      However, kvm_is_mmio_pfn() doesn't do quite what it says on the tin,
      and the existing non-ARM users were already using it in a way which
      suggests that its name should probably have been 'kvm_is_reserved_pfn'
      from the beginning, e.g., whether or not to call get_page/put_page on
      it etc. This means that returning false for the zero page is a mistake
      and the patch above should be reverted.
      Signed-off-by: NArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      d3fccc7e
  12. 25 11月, 2014 1 次提交
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      kvm: fix kvm_is_mmio_pfn() and rename to kvm_is_reserved_pfn() · bf4bea8e
      Ard Biesheuvel 提交于
      This reverts commit 85c8555f ("KVM: check for !is_zero_pfn() in
      kvm_is_mmio_pfn()") and renames the function to kvm_is_reserved_pfn.
      
      The problem being addressed by the patch above was that some ARM code
      based the memory mapping attributes of a pfn on the return value of
      kvm_is_mmio_pfn(), whose name indeed suggests that such pfns should
      be mapped as device memory.
      
      However, kvm_is_mmio_pfn() doesn't do quite what it says on the tin,
      and the existing non-ARM users were already using it in a way which
      suggests that its name should probably have been 'kvm_is_reserved_pfn'
      from the beginning, e.g., whether or not to call get_page/put_page on
      it etc. This means that returning false for the zero page is a mistake
      and the patch above should be reverted.
      Signed-off-by: NArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
      bf4bea8e
  13. 24 11月, 2014 1 次提交
  14. 22 11月, 2014 1 次提交
  15. 17 11月, 2014 2 次提交
  16. 14 11月, 2014 2 次提交
  17. 03 11月, 2014 1 次提交
  18. 24 10月, 2014 1 次提交
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      kvm: vfio: fix unregister kvm_device_ops of vfio · 571ee1b6
      Wanpeng Li 提交于
      After commit 80ce1639 (KVM: VFIO: register kvm_device_ops dynamically),
      kvm_device_ops of vfio can be registered dynamically. Commit 3c3c29fd
      (kvm-vfio: do not use module_init) move the dynamic register invoked by
      kvm_init in order to fix broke unloading of the kvm module. However,
      kvm_device_ops of vfio is unregistered after rmmod kvm-intel module
      which lead to device type collision detection warning after kvm-intel
      module reinsmod.
      
          WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 10358 at /root/cathy/kvm/arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:3289 kvm_init+0x234/0x282 [kvm]()
          Modules linked in: kvm_intel(O+) kvm(O) nfsv3 nfs_acl auth_rpcgss oid_registry nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs fscache lockd sunrpc pci_stub bridge stp llc autofs4 8021q cpufreq_ondemand ipv6 joydev microcode pcspkr igb i2c_algo_bit ehci_pci ehci_hcd e1000e i2c_i801 ixgbe ptp pps_core hwmon mdio tpm_tis tpm ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler acpi_cpufreq isci libsas scsi_transport_sas button dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: kvm_intel]
          CPU: 1 PID: 10358 Comm: insmod Tainted: G        W  O   3.17.0-rc1 #2
          Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS RMLSDP.86I.00.29.D696.1311111329 11/11/2013
           0000000000000cd9 ffff880ff08cfd18 ffffffff814a61d9 0000000000000cd9
           0000000000000000 ffff880ff08cfd58 ffffffff810417b7 ffff880ff08cfd48
           ffffffffa045bcac ffffffffa049c420 0000000000000040 00000000000000ff
          Call Trace:
           [<ffffffff814a61d9>] dump_stack+0x49/0x60
           [<ffffffff810417b7>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0x96
           [<ffffffffa045bcac>] ? kvm_init+0x234/0x282 [kvm]
           [<ffffffff810417e6>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x17
           [<ffffffffa045bcac>] kvm_init+0x234/0x282 [kvm]
           [<ffffffffa016e995>] vmx_init+0x1bf/0x42a [kvm_intel]
           [<ffffffffa016e7d6>] ? vmx_check_processor_compat+0x64/0x64 [kvm_intel]
           [<ffffffff810002ab>] do_one_initcall+0xe3/0x170
           [<ffffffff811168a9>] ? __vunmap+0xad/0xb8
           [<ffffffff8109c58f>] do_init_module+0x2b/0x174
           [<ffffffff8109d414>] load_module+0x43e/0x569
           [<ffffffff8109c6d8>] ? do_init_module+0x174/0x174
           [<ffffffff8109c75a>] ? copy_module_from_user+0x39/0x82
           [<ffffffff8109b7dd>] ? module_sect_show+0x20/0x20
           [<ffffffff8109d65f>] SyS_init_module+0x54/0x81
           [<ffffffff814a9a12>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
          ---[ end trace 0626f4a3ddea56f3 ]---
      
      The bug can be reproduced by:
      
          rmmod kvm_intel.ko
          insmod kvm_intel.ko
      
      without rmmod/insmod kvm.ko
      This patch fixes the bug by unregistering kvm_device_ops of vfio when the
      kvm-intel module is removed.
      Reported-by: NLiu Rongrong <rongrongx.liu@intel.com>
      Fixes: 3c3c29fdSigned-off-by: NWanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      571ee1b6
  19. 26 9月, 2014 1 次提交
  20. 24 9月, 2014 3 次提交