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KVM: Choose better candidate for directed yield 

Currently, on a large vcpu guests, there is a high probability of
yielding to the same vcpu who had recently done a pause-loop exit or
cpu relax intercepted. Such a yield can lead to the vcpu spinning
again and hence degrade the performance.

The patchset keeps track of the pause loop exit/cpu relax interception
and gives chance to a vcpu which:
 (a) Has not done pause loop exit or cpu relax intercepted at all
     (probably he is preempted lock-holder)
 (b) Was skipped in last iteration because it did pause loop exit or
     cpu relax intercepted, and probably has become eligible now
     (next eligible lock holder)

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> # on s390x
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Raghavendra K T 2012-07-19 15:17:52 +05:30 committed by Avi Kivity
parent 4c088493c8
commit 06e48c510a
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include/linux/kvm_host.h
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@ -931,6 +931,11 @@ static inline void kvm_vcpu_set_dy_eligible(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool val)
{
}
static inline bool kvm_vcpu_eligible_for_directed_yield(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
return true;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT */
#endif

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virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
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@ -1579,6 +1579,43 @@ bool kvm_vcpu_yield_to(struct kvm_vcpu *target)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vcpu_yield_to);
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT
/*
* Helper that checks whether a VCPU is eligible for directed yield.
* Most eligible candidate to yield is decided by following heuristics:
*
* (a) VCPU which has not done pl-exit or cpu relax intercepted recently
* (preempted lock holder), indicated by @in_spin_loop.
* Set at the beiginning and cleared at the end of interception/PLE handler.
*
* (b) VCPU which has done pl-exit/ cpu relax intercepted but did not get
* chance last time (mostly it has become eligible now since we have probably
* yielded to lockholder in last iteration. This is done by toggling
* @dy_eligible each time a VCPU checked for eligibility.)
*
* Yielding to a recently pl-exited/cpu relax intercepted VCPU before yielding
* to preempted lock-holder could result in wrong VCPU selection and CPU
* burning. Giving priority for a potential lock-holder increases lock
* progress.
*
* Since algorithm is based on heuristics, accessing another VCPU data without
* locking does not harm. It may result in trying to yield to same VCPU, fail
* and continue with next VCPU and so on.
*/
bool kvm_vcpu_eligible_for_directed_yield(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
bool eligible;
eligible = !vcpu->spin_loop.in_spin_loop ||
(vcpu->spin_loop.in_spin_loop &&
vcpu->spin_loop.dy_eligible);
if (vcpu->spin_loop.in_spin_loop)
kvm_vcpu_set_dy_eligible(vcpu, !vcpu->spin_loop.dy_eligible);
return eligible;
}
#endif
void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
{
struct kvm *kvm = me->kvm;
@ -1607,6 +1644,8 @@ void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
continue;
if (waitqueue_active(&vcpu->wq))
continue;
if (!kvm_vcpu_eligible_for_directed_yield(vcpu))
continue;
if (kvm_vcpu_yield_to(vcpu)) {
kvm->last_boosted_vcpu = i;
yielded = 1;
@ -1615,6 +1654,9 @@ void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
}
}
kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(me, false);
/* Ensure vcpu is not eligible during next spinloop */
kvm_vcpu_set_dy_eligible(me, false);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vcpu_on_spin);