From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> To: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>, Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>, Xen <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, X86 <x86@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Dave Hansen <dav Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:23:02 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <B6E21B69-17D1-48E0-AFD4-B52075094005@suse.de> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20120116142014.GA10155@linux.vnet.ibm.com> On 16.01.2012, at 15:20, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > * Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> [2012-01-16 04:57:45]: > >> Speaking of which - have you benchmarked performance degradation of pv ticket locks on bare metal? > > You mean, run kernel on bare metal with CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS > enabled and compare how it performs with CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS disabled for > some workload(s)? Yup > > In some sense, the 1x overcommitcase results posted does measure the overhead > of (pv-)spinlocks no? We don't see any overhead in that case for atleast > kernbench .. > >> Result for Non PLE machine : >> ============================ > > [snip] > >> Kernbench: >> BASE BASE+patch What is BASE really? Is BASE already with the PV spinlocks enabled? I'm having a hard time understanding which tree you're working against, since the prerequisites aren't upstream yet. Alex >> %improvement >> mean (sd) mean (sd) >> Scenario A: >> case 1x: 164.233 (16.5506) 163.584 (15.4598 0.39517 > > [snip] > >> Result for PLE machine: >> ====================== > > [snip] >> Kernbench: >> BASE BASE+patch >> %improvement >> mean (sd) mean (sd) >> Scenario A: >> case 1x: 161.263 (56.518) 159.635 (40.5621) 1.00953 > > - vatsa >
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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> To: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>, Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>, Xen <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, X86 <x86@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>Dave Hansen <dav> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:23:02 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <B6E21B69-17D1-48E0-AFD4-B52075094005@suse.de> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20120116142014.GA10155@linux.vnet.ibm.com> On 16.01.2012, at 15:20, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > * Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> [2012-01-16 04:57:45]: > >> Speaking of which - have you benchmarked performance degradation of pv ticket locks on bare metal? > > You mean, run kernel on bare metal with CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS > enabled and compare how it performs with CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS disabled for > some workload(s)? Yup > > In some sense, the 1x overcommitcase results posted does measure the overhead > of (pv-)spinlocks no? We don't see any overhead in that case for atleast > kernbench .. > >> Result for Non PLE machine : >> ============================ > > [snip] > >> Kernbench: >> BASE BASE+patch What is BASE really? Is BASE already with the PV spinlocks enabled? I'm having a hard time understanding which tree you're working against, since the prerequisites aren't upstream yet. Alex >> %improvement >> mean (sd) mean (sd) >> Scenario A: >> case 1x: 164.233 (16.5506) 163.584 (15.4598 0.39517 > > [snip] > >> Result for PLE machine: >> ====================== > > [snip] >> Kernbench: >> BASE BASE+patch >> %improvement >> mean (sd) mean (sd) >> Scenario A: >> case 1x: 161.263 (56.518) 159.635 (40.5621) 1.00953 > > - vatsa >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-16 14:23 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 139+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2012-01-14 18:25 [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:25 ` [PATCH RFC V4 1/5] debugfs: Add support to print u32 array in debugfs Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:25 ` [PATCH RFC V4 2/5] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 3:24 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 3:24 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 8:43 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 8:43 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 9:03 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 9:03 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 9:55 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 9:55 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:26 ` [PATCH RFC V4 3/5] kvm guest : Added configuration support to enable debug information for KVM Guests Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:26 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:26 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:26 ` [PATCH RFC V4 4/5] kvm : pv-ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:26 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:26 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 3:12 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 3:12 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 7:25 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 7:25 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 9:05 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 9:05 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 14:13 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 14:13 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 14:47 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 14:47 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 23:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2012-01-16 23:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2012-01-17 11:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti 2012-01-17 11:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti 2012-01-17 11:33 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-17 11:33 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-18 1:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2012-01-18 1:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2012-01-18 13:54 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-18 13:54 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-18 21:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2012-01-18 21:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2012-01-24 14:08 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-24 14:08 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-24 18:51 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-24 18:51 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-17 18:57 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-17 18:57 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-24 19:01 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:27 ` [PATCH RFC V4 5/5] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:27 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:27 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-14 18:27 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 3:23 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 3:23 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 3:51 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-16 3:51 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-16 4:00 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 4:00 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 8:47 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 8:44 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 8:44 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 10:26 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 10:26 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 9:00 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 9:00 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 9:40 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-16 10:14 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 14:11 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-17 9:14 ` Gleb Natapov 2012-01-17 9:14 ` Gleb Natapov 2012-01-17 12:26 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-17 12:26 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-17 12:51 ` Gleb Natapov 2012-01-17 12:51 ` Gleb Natapov 2012-01-17 13:11 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-17 13:11 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-17 13:20 ` Gleb Natapov 2012-01-17 13:20 ` Gleb Natapov 2012-01-17 14:28 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-17 14:28 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-17 15:32 ` Gleb Natapov 2012-01-17 15:32 ` Gleb Natapov 2012-01-17 15:53 ` Marcelo Tosatti 2012-01-17 15:53 ` Marcelo Tosatti 2012-01-20 15:09 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-17 13:13 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-17 13:13 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 3:57 ` [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 3:57 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 6:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2012-01-16 6:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2012-01-16 8:55 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 8:55 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 23:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2012-01-16 23:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2012-01-18 10:48 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-18 10:48 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 10:24 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 10:24 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-17 0:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2012-01-17 0:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2012-01-18 10:23 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-18 10:23 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 13:43 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 13:43 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 13:49 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 13:49 ` Avi Kivity 2012-01-16 18:48 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 18:48 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 14:20 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-16 14:20 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri 2012-01-16 14:23 ` Alexander Graf [this message] 2012-01-16 14:23 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 18:38 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 18:38 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-16 18:42 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-16 18:42 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-17 17:27 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-17 17:27 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-17 17:39 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-17 17:39 ` Alexander Graf 2012-01-17 18:36 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-17 18:36 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-17 21:57 ` Dave Hansen 2012-01-17 21:57 ` Dave Hansen 2012-01-18 2:27 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-18 2:27 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-25 8:55 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-25 8:55 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-25 16:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2012-01-25 16:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2012-01-25 17:45 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-25 17:45 ` Raghavendra K T 2012-01-25 19:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2012-01-25 19:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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