From: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aliguori@us.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH 00/16] New Proposal for steal time in KVM
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:06:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1295892397-11354-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> (raw)
Hello people
This is the new version of the steal time series, this time on steroids.
The steal time per se is not much different from the last time I posted, so
I'll highlight what's around it.
Since one of the main fights was around how to register the shared memory area,
which would end up with a new MSR, I decided to provide an MSR to end all MSR
allocations. This patchset contains a generic GuestKernel-to-Hypervisor memory
registering, that can be further used and abused without too much hassle, even by
letting userspace handle what the hypervisor won't - think of feature emulation in
older hosts, or any other thing.
To demonstrate that, and how it works, I ported kvmclock to this infrastructure.
After that, I used it to implement steal time information exchange.
Even our last discussions, I am keeping the steal time accounting in sched.c.
I still see value on that, as opposed to a lower level, because it will give us
easier access to the scheduler variables, such as the cpu runqueue.
The last patch in the series uses this to decrease CPU power according to the
current steal time information, leading to a possibly more smart scheduling.
This, in particular, is very early work, and advise on that - including "Stop now,
you idiot!" is very welcome.
TODO:
* Handle unregister over reboots
* Grab a list of current registrations, for migration
* Write documentation
* Check size in hv registerings, to prevent out of boundaries
exploits
Glauber Costa (16):
KVM-HDR: register KVM basic header infrastructure
KVM-HV: KVM - KVM Virtual Memory hypervisor implementation
KVM-HDR: KVM Userspace registering ioctl
KVM-HV: KVM Userspace registering ioctl
KVM-HDR: Implement wallclock over KVM - KVM Virtual Memory
KVM-HDR: Implement wallclock over KVM - KVM Virtual Memory
KVM-GST: Implement wallclock over KVM - KVM Virtual Memory
KVM-HDR: Implement kvmclock systemtime over KVM - KVM Virtual Memory
KVM-HV: Implement kvmclock systemtime over KVM - KVM Virtual Memory
KVM-GST: Implement kvmclock systemtime over KVM - KVM Virtual Memory
KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation
KVM-HV: KVM Steal time implementation
KVM-HV: KVM Steal time calculation
KVM-GST: KVM Steal time registration
KVM-GST: KVM Steal time accounting
KVM-GST: adjust scheduler cpu power
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 19 +++++++
arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 4 ++
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 4 ++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
include/linux/kvm.h | 14 +++++-
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 1 +
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
kernel/sched.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++
kernel/sched_fair.c | 10 ++++
11 files changed, 268 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
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1.7.2.3
next reply other threads:[~2011-01-24 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-24 18:06 Glauber Costa [this message]
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 01/16] KVM-HDR: register KVM basic header infrastructure Glauber Costa
2011-01-26 11:06 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-26 12:13 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-26 15:12 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-26 15:36 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-26 17:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-01-26 17:49 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-27 12:31 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 02/16] KVM-HV: KVM - KVM Virtual Memory hypervisor implementation Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 03/16] KVM-HDR: KVM Userspace registering ioctl Glauber Costa
2011-01-26 11:12 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-26 12:14 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-26 15:14 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-26 15:23 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 04/16] KVM-HV: " Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 05/16] KVM-HDR: Implement wallclock over KVM - KVM Virtual Memory Glauber Costa
2011-01-26 11:13 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-26 12:20 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-26 15:17 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-26 15:45 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-27 12:17 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 06/16] " Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 07/16] KVM-GST: " Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 08/16] KVM-HDR: Implement kvmclock systemtime " Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 09/16] KVM-HV: " Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 10/16] KVM-GST: " Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 11/16] KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 23:06 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 12/16] KVM-HV: " Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 23:15 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 13/16] KVM-HV: KVM Steal time calculation Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 23:20 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 14/16] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time registration Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 23:27 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-24 23:31 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-25 1:25 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-25 1:26 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-25 1:28 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 15/16] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time accounting Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 23:33 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-24 18:06 ` [PATCH 16/16] KVM-GST: adjust scheduler cpu power Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 18:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-24 18:51 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 19:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-24 19:57 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-25 20:02 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-25 20:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 20:47 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-25 21:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 21:27 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-26 9:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-26 15:43 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-26 16:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-26 16:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-26 18:11 ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-24 19:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
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