From: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
"Eduardo Habkost" <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/3] KVM: Introduce dedicated vCPUs hint KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:05:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1518483942-14741-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com> (raw)
This patchset introduces dedicated vCPUs(vCPU pinning, and there is no
vCPU over-commitment) hint KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED, it has two users now:
1) Waiman Long mentioned that:
Generally speaking, unfair lock performs well for VMs with a small
number of vCPUs. Native qspinlock may perform better than pvqspinlock
if there is vCPU pinning and there is no vCPU over-commitment.
2) vCPUs are very unlikely to get preempted when they are the only task
running on a CPU. PV TLB flush is slower that the native flush in that
case.
v3 -> v4:
* update feature bit document
v2 -> v3:
* a separate table for CPUID[0x40000001].EDX bits
* a new kvm_hint_has_feature macro
v1 -> v2:
* update to KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED
Wanpeng Li (3):
KVM: Introduce dedicated vCPUs hint KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED
KVM: X86: Choose qspinlock when dedicated vCPUs available
KVM: X86: Don't use PV TLB flush with dedicated vCPUs and steal time disabled
Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt | 15 +++++++++++++--
arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 5 +++++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 5 +++++
arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 5 +++++
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 6 ++++++
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 8 ++++++--
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
include/asm-generic/kvm_para.h | 5 +++++
include/linux/kvm_para.h | 5 +++++
9 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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2.7.4
next reply other threads:[~2018-02-13 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-13 1:05 Wanpeng Li [this message]
2018-02-13 1:05 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] KVM: Introduce dedicated vCPUs hint KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED Wanpeng Li
2018-02-13 1:05 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] KVM: X86: Choose qspinlock when dedicated vCPUs available Wanpeng Li
2018-02-13 1:05 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: X86: Don't use PV TLB flush with dedicated vCPUs and steal time disabled Wanpeng Li
2018-02-13 16:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-14 3:03 ` Wanpeng Li
2018-03-06 14:39 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] KVM: Introduce dedicated vCPUs hint KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED Eduardo Valentin
2018-03-07 0:41 ` Wanpeng Li
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