From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: arm64: Reduce occurence of GICv4 doorbells on non-oversubscribed systems
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 17:56:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191107165636.GB17608@e113682-lin.lund.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191107160412.30301-1-maz@kernel.org>
On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 04:04:10PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> As I was cleaning up some of the GICv4 code to make way for GICv4.1 it
> occured to me that we could drastically reduce the impact of the GICv4
> doorbells on systems that are not oversubscribed (each vcpu "owns" a
> physical CPU).
>
> The technique borrows its logic from the way we disable WFE trapping
> when a vcpu is the only process on the CPU run-queue. If this vcpu is
> the target of VLPIs, it is then beneficial not to trap blocking WFIs
> and to leave the vcpu waiting for interrupts in guest state.
>
> All we need to do here is to track whether VLPIs are associated to a
> vcpu (which is easily done by using a counter that we update on MAPI,
> DISCARD and MOVI).
>
> It has been *very lightly* tested on a D05, and behaved pretty well in
> my limited test cases (I get almost no doorbell at all in the non
> oversubscribed case, and the usual hailstorm as soon as there is
> oversubscription). I'd welcome some testing on more current HW.
>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-07 16:04 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: arm64: Reduce occurence of GICv4 doorbells on non-oversubscribed systems Marc Zyngier
2019-11-07 16:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: vgic-v4: Track the number of VLPIs per vcpu Marc Zyngier
2019-11-08 9:20 ` Zenghui Yu
2019-11-07 16:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: Opportunistically turn off WFI trapping when using direct LPI injection Marc Zyngier
2019-11-08 9:20 ` Zenghui Yu
2019-11-07 16:56 ` Christoffer Dall [this message]
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