From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Raslan KarimAllah <karahmed@amazon.de>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 0/5] cpuidle haltpoll driver and governor (v4)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 18:45:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190613224532.949768676@redhat.com> (raw)
The cpuidle-haltpoll driver with haltpoll governor allows the guest
vcpus to poll for a specified amount of time before halting.
This provides the following benefits to host side polling:
1) The POLL flag is set while polling is performed, which allows
a remote vCPU to avoid sending an IPI (and the associated
cost of handling the IPI) when performing a wakeup.
2) The VM-exit cost can be avoided.
The downside of guest side polling is that polling is performed
even with other runnable tasks in the host.
Results comparing halt_poll_ns and server/client application
where a small packet is ping-ponged:
host --> 31.33
halt_poll_ns=300000 / no guest busy spin --> 33.40 (93.8%)
halt_poll_ns=0 / guest_halt_poll_ns=300000 --> 32.73 (95.7%)
For the SAP HANA benchmarks (where idle_spin is a parameter
of the previous version of the patch, results should be the
same):
hpns == halt_poll_ns
idle_spin=0/ idle_spin=800/ idle_spin=0/
hpns=200000 hpns=0 hpns=800000
DeleteC06T03 (100 thread) 1.76 1.71 (-3%) 1.78 (+1%)
InsertC16T02 (100 thread) 2.14 2.07 (-3%) 2.18 (+1.8%)
DeleteC00T01 (1 thread) 1.34 1.28 (-4.5%) 1.29 (-3.7%)
UpdateC00T03 (1 thread) 4.72 4.18 (-12%) 4.53 (-5%)
V2:
- Move from x86 to generic code (Paolo/Christian)
- Add auto-tuning logic (Paolo)
- Add MSR to disable host side polling (Paolo)
V3:
- Do not be specific about HLT VM-exit in the documentation (Ankur Arora)
- Mark tuning parameters static and __read_mostly (Andrea Arcangeli)
- Add WARN_ON if host does not support poll control (Joao Martins)
- Use sched_clock and cleanup haltpoll_enter_idle (Peter Zijlstra)
- Mark certain functions in kvm.c as static (kernel test robot)
- Remove tracepoints as they use RCU from extended quiescent state (kernel
test robot)
V4:
- Use a haltpoll governor, use poll_state.c poll code (Rafael J. Wysocki)
next reply other threads:[~2019-06-13 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-13 22:45 Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2019-06-13 22:45 ` [patch 1/5] drivers/cpuidle: add cpuidle-haltpoll driver Marcelo Tosatti
2019-06-25 21:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-06-26 8:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-06-13 22:45 ` [patch 2/5] cpuidle: add get_poll_time callback Marcelo Tosatti
2019-06-25 21:52 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-06-13 22:45 ` [patch 3/5] cpuidle: add haltpoll governor Marcelo Tosatti
2019-06-21 0:34 ` Doug Smythies
2019-06-27 18:08 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2019-06-25 21:57 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-06-13 22:45 ` [patch 4/5] kvm: x86: add host poll control msrs Marcelo Tosatti
2019-06-13 22:45 ` [patch 5/5] cpuidle-haltpoll: disable host side polling when kvm virtualized Marcelo Tosatti
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