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  1. 12 3月, 2015 2 次提交
  3. 11 3月, 2015 1 次提交
  5. 12 2月, 2015 1 次提交
  7. 09 2月, 2015 1 次提交
  9. 06 2月, 2015 1 次提交
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      kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter · f7819512
      由 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
  11. 29 1月, 2015 1 次提交
  13. 28 1月, 2015 1 次提交
  15. 23 1月, 2015 1 次提交
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  19. 16 1月, 2015 2 次提交
  21. 11 1月, 2015 2 次提交
  23. 09 1月, 2015 1 次提交
  25. 31 12月, 2014 1 次提交
  27. 28 12月, 2014 2 次提交
  29. 15 12月, 2014 2 次提交
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      arm/arm64: KVM: Require in-kernel vgic for the arch timers · 05971120
      由 Christoffer Dall 提交于 
      It is curently possible to run a VM with architected timers support
without creating an in-kernel VGIC, which will result in interrupts from
the virtual timer going nowhere.

To address this issue, move the architected timers initialization to the
time when we run a VCPU for the first time, and then only initialize
(and enable) the architected timers if we have a properly created and
initialized in-kernel VGIC.

When injecting interrupts from the virtual timer to the vgic, the
current setup should ensure that this never calls an on-demand init of
the VGIC, which is the only call path that could return an error from
kvm_vgic_inject_irq(), so capture the return value and raise a warning
if there's an error there.

We also change the kvm_timer_init() function from returning an int to be
a void function, since the function always succeeds.
Reviewed-by: NMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
      05971120
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      arm/arm64: KVM: Initialize the vgic on-demand when injecting IRQs · ca7d9c82
      由 Christoffer Dall 提交于 
      Userspace assumes that it can wire up IRQ injections after having
created all VCPUs and after having created the VGIC, but potentially
before starting the first VCPU.  This can currently lead to lost IRQs
because the state of that IRQ injection is not stored anywhere and we
don't return an error to userspace.

We haven't seen this problem manifest itself yet, presumably because
guests reset the devices on boot, but this could cause issues with
migration and other non-standard startup configurations.
Reviewed-by: NMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
      ca7d9c82
  31. 13 12月, 2014 3 次提交