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From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: paulmck@kernel.org
Cc: Alex Kogan <alex.kogan@oracle.com>,
	linux@armlinux.org.uk, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, bp@alien8.de,
	hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, guohanjun@huawei.com,
	jglauber@marvell.com, dave.dice@oracle.com,
	steven.sistare@oracle.com, daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/5] Add NUMA-awareness to qspinlock
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 14:41:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <967f99ee-b781-43f4-d8ba-af83786c429c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200125045844.GC2935@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72>

On 1/24/20 11:58 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 09:17:05PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
>> On 1/24/20 8:59 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
>>>> You called it!  I will play with QEMU's -numa argument to see if I can get
>>>> CNA to run for me.  Please accept my apologies for the false alarm.
>>>>
>>>> 							Thanx, Paul
>>>>
>>> CNA is not currently supported in a VM guest simply because the numa
>>> information is not reliable. You will have to run it on baremetal to
>>> test it. Sorry for that.
>> Correction. There is a command line option to force CNA lock to be used
>> in a VM. Use the "numa_spinlock=on" boot command line parameter.
> As I understand it, I need to use a series of -numa arguments to qemu
> combined with the numa_spinlock=on (or =1) on the kernel command line.
> If the kernel thinks that there is only one NUMA node, it appears to
> avoid doing CNA.
>
> Correct?
>
> 							Thanx, Paul
>
In auto-detection mode (the default), CNA will only be turned on when
paravirt qspinlock is not enabled first and there are at least 2 numa
nodes. The "numa_spinlock=on" option will force it on even when both of
the above conditions are false.

Cheers,
Longman


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From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: paulmck@kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, guohanjun@huawei.com,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	dave.dice@oracle.com, jglauber@marvell.com, x86@kernel.org,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	linux@armlinux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	bp@alien8.de, hpa@zytor.com, Alex Kogan <alex.kogan@oracle.com>,
	steven.sistare@oracle.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/5] Add NUMA-awareness to qspinlock
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 14:41:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <967f99ee-b781-43f4-d8ba-af83786c429c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200125045844.GC2935@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72>

On 1/24/20 11:58 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 09:17:05PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
>> On 1/24/20 8:59 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
>>>> You called it!  I will play with QEMU's -numa argument to see if I can get
>>>> CNA to run for me.  Please accept my apologies for the false alarm.
>>>>
>>>> 							Thanx, Paul
>>>>
>>> CNA is not currently supported in a VM guest simply because the numa
>>> information is not reliable. You will have to run it on baremetal to
>>> test it. Sorry for that.
>> Correction. There is a command line option to force CNA lock to be used
>> in a VM. Use the "numa_spinlock=on" boot command line parameter.
> As I understand it, I need to use a series of -numa arguments to qemu
> combined with the numa_spinlock=on (or =1) on the kernel command line.
> If the kernel thinks that there is only one NUMA node, it appears to
> avoid doing CNA.
>
> Correct?
>
> 							Thanx, Paul
>
In auto-detection mode (the default), CNA will only be turned on when
paravirt qspinlock is not enabled first and there are at least 2 numa
nodes. The "numa_spinlock=on" option will force it on even when both of
the above conditions are false.

Cheers,
Longman


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-25 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-15  3:59 [PATCH v9 0/5] Add NUMA-awareness to qspinlock Alex Kogan
2020-01-15  3:59 ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-15  3:59 ` [PATCH v9 1/5] locking/qspinlock: Rename mcs lock/unlock macros and make them more generic Alex Kogan
2020-01-15  3:59   ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-15  3:59 ` [PATCH v9 2/5] locking/qspinlock: Refactor the qspinlock slow path Alex Kogan
2020-01-15  3:59   ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-15  3:59   ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-15  3:59 ` [PATCH v9 3/5] locking/qspinlock: Introduce CNA into the slow path of qspinlock Alex Kogan
2020-01-15  3:59   ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-15  3:59   ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-23  9:26   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23  9:26     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23  9:26     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23 10:06     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23 10:06       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23 10:06       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23 10:16       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23 10:16         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23 10:16         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23 11:22         ` Will Deacon
2020-01-23 11:22           ` Will Deacon
2020-01-23 13:17           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23 13:17             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23 13:17             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23 14:15   ` Waiman Long
2020-01-23 14:15     ` Waiman Long
2020-01-23 15:29     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23 15:29       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-23 15:29       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-15  3:59 ` [PATCH v9 4/5] locking/qspinlock: Introduce starvation avoidance into CNA Alex Kogan
2020-01-15  3:59   ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-23 19:55   ` Waiman Long
2020-01-23 19:55     ` Waiman Long
2020-01-23 20:39     ` Waiman Long
2020-01-23 20:39       ` Waiman Long
2020-01-23 23:39       ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-23 23:39         ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-15  3:59 ` [PATCH v9 5/5] locking/qspinlock: Introduce the shuffle reduction optimization " Alex Kogan
2020-01-15  3:59   ` Alex Kogan
2020-03-02  1:14   ` [locking/qspinlock] 7b6da71157: unixbench.score 8.4% improvement kernel test robot
2020-03-02  1:14     ` kernel test robot
2020-03-02  1:14     ` kernel test robot
2020-01-22 11:45 ` [PATCH v9 0/5] Add NUMA-awareness to qspinlock Lihao Liang
2020-01-22 11:45   ` Lihao Liang
2020-01-22 17:24   ` Waiman Long
2020-01-22 17:24     ` Waiman Long
2020-01-23 11:35     ` Will Deacon
2020-01-23 11:35       ` Will Deacon
2020-01-23 15:25       ` Waiman Long
2020-01-23 15:25         ` Waiman Long
2020-01-23 19:08         ` Waiman Long
2020-01-23 19:08           ` Waiman Long
2020-01-22 19:29   ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-22 19:29     ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-26  0:32     ` Lihao Liang
2020-01-26  0:32       ` Lihao Liang
2020-01-26  1:58       ` Lihao Liang
2020-01-26  1:58         ` Lihao Liang
2020-01-26  1:58         ` Lihao Liang
2020-01-27 16:01         ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-27 16:01           ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-29  1:39           ` Lihao Liang
2020-01-29  1:39             ` Lihao Liang
2020-01-27  6:16       ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-27  6:16         ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-24 22:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-24 22:24   ` Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]   ` <6AAE7FC6-F5DE-4067-8BC4-77F27948CD09@oracle.com>
2020-01-25  0:57     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-25  0:57       ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-25  1:59       ` Waiman Long
2020-01-25  1:59         ` Waiman Long
     [not found]         ` <adb4fb09-f374-4d64-096b-ba9ad8b35fd5@redhat.com>
2020-01-25  4:58           ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-25  4:58             ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-25 19:41             ` Waiman Long [this message]
2020-01-25 19:41               ` Waiman Long
2020-01-26 15:35               ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-26 15:35                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-26 22:42                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-26 22:42                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-26 23:32                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-26 23:32                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-27  6:04                   ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-27  6:04                     ` Alex Kogan
2020-01-27 14:11                   ` Waiman Long
2020-01-27 14:11                     ` Waiman Long
2020-01-27 15:09                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-27 15:09                       ` Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]                       ` <9b3a3f16-5405-b6d1-d023-b85f4aab46dd@redhat.com>
2020-01-27 17:17                         ` Waiman Long
2020-01-27 17:17                           ` Waiman Long

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