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KVM: Boost vCPUs that are delivering interrupts
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Inspired by commit 9cac38d (KVM/s390: Set preempted flag during
vcpu wakeup and interrupt delivery), we want to also boost not just
lock holders but also vCPUs that are delivering interrupts. Most
smp_call_function_many calls are synchronous, so the IPI target vCPUs
are also good yield candidates.  This patch introduces vcpu->ready to
boost vCPUs during wakeup and interrupt delivery time; unlike s390 we do
not reuse vcpu->preempted so that voluntarily preempted vCPUs are taken
into account by kvm_vcpu_on_spin, but vmx_vcpu_pi_put is not affected
(VT-d PI handles voluntary preemption separately, in pi_pre_block).

Testing on 80 HT 2 socket Xeon Skylake server, with 80 vCPUs VM 80GB RAM:
ebizzy -M

            vanilla     boosting    improved
1VM          21443       23520         9%
2VM           2800        8000       180%
3VM           1800        3100        72%

Testing on my Haswell desktop 8 HT, with 8 vCPUs VM 8GB RAM, two VMs,
one running ebizzy -M, the other running 'stress --cpu 2':

w/ boosting + w/o pv sched yield(vanilla)

            vanilla     boosting   improved
              1570         4000      155%

w/ boosting + w/ pv sched yield(vanilla)

            vanilla     boosting   improved
              1844         5157      179%

w/o boosting, perf top in VM:

 72.33%  [kernel]       [k] smp_call_function_many
  4.22%  [kernel]       [k] call_function_i
  3.71%  [kernel]       [k] async_page_fault

w/ boosting, perf top in VM:

 38.43%  [kernel]       [k] smp_call_function_many
  6.31%  [kernel]       [k] async_page_fault
  6.13%  libc-2.23.so   [.] __memcpy_avx_unaligned
  4.88%  [kernel]       [k] call_function_interrupt

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
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Wanpeng Li authored and bonzini committed Jul 20, 2019
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c
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Expand Up @@ -1240,7 +1240,7 @@ void kvm_s390_vcpu_wakeup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
* The vcpu gave up the cpu voluntarily, mark it as a good
* yield-candidate.
*/
vcpu->preempted = true;
vcpu->ready = true;
swake_up_one(&vcpu->wq);
vcpu->stat.halt_wakeup++;
}
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/linux/kvm_host.h
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Expand Up @@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu {
} spin_loop;
#endif
bool preempted;
bool ready;
struct kvm_vcpu_arch arch;
struct dentry *debugfs_dentry;
};
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12 changes: 8 additions & 4 deletions virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
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Expand Up @@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ int kvm_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm *kvm, unsigned id)
kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(vcpu, false);
kvm_vcpu_set_dy_eligible(vcpu, false);
vcpu->preempted = false;
vcpu->ready = false;

r = kvm_arch_vcpu_init(vcpu);
if (r < 0)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2387,6 +2388,7 @@ bool kvm_vcpu_wake_up(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
wqp = kvm_arch_vcpu_wq(vcpu);
if (swq_has_sleeper(wqp)) {
swake_up_one(wqp);
WRITE_ONCE(vcpu->ready, true);
++vcpu->stat.halt_wakeup;
return true;
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2500,7 +2502,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me, bool yield_to_kernel_mode)
continue;
} else if (pass && i > last_boosted_vcpu)
break;
if (!READ_ONCE(vcpu->preempted))
if (!READ_ONCE(vcpu->ready))
continue;
if (vcpu == me)
continue;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4203,8 +4205,8 @@ static void kvm_sched_in(struct preempt_notifier *pn, int cpu)
{
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = preempt_notifier_to_vcpu(pn);

if (vcpu->preempted)
vcpu->preempted = false;
vcpu->preempted = false;
WRITE_ONCE(vcpu->ready, false);

kvm_arch_sched_in(vcpu, cpu);

Expand All @@ -4216,8 +4218,10 @@ static void kvm_sched_out(struct preempt_notifier *pn,
{
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = preempt_notifier_to_vcpu(pn);

if (current->state == TASK_RUNNING)
if (current->state == TASK_RUNNING) {
vcpu->preempted = true;
WRITE_ONCE(vcpu->ready, true);
}
kvm_arch_vcpu_put(vcpu);
}

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