From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
xen-devel-request@lists.xenproject.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
mingo@redhat.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
will.deacon@arm.com, kernellwp@gmail.com, jgross@suse.com,
pbonzini@redhat.com, bsingharora@gmail.com,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] implement vcpu preempted check
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:05:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0cfa717-0f23-f326-2907-2524ad755f91@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f521d8cb-c38b-a608-eca8-a5c45184bbca@de.ibm.com>
On 09/29/2016 12:40 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 09/29/2016 12:23 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> On 09/29/2016 12:10 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 07:45:10AM -0400, Pan Xinhui wrote:
>>>> change from v2:
>>>> no code change, fix typos, update some comments
>>>>
>>>> change from v1:
>>>> a simplier definition of default vcpu_is_preempted
>>>> skip mahcine type check on ppc, and add config. remove dedicated macro.
>>>> add one patch to drop overload of rwsem_spin_on_owner and mutex_spin_on_owner.
>>>> add more comments
>>>> thanks boqun and Peter's suggestion.
>>>>
>>>> This patch set aims to fix lock holder preemption issues.
>>>
>>> So I really like the concept, but I would also really like to see
>>> support for more hypervisors included before we can move forward with
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Please consider s390 and (x86/arm) KVM. Once we have a few, more can
>>> follow later, but I think its important to not only have PPC support for
>>> this.
>>
>> Actually the s390 preemted check via sigp sense running is available for
>> all hypervisors (z/VM, LPAR and KVM) which implies everywhere as you can no
>> longer buy s390 systems without LPAR.
>>
>> As Heiko already pointed out we could simply use a small inline function
>> that calls cpu_is_preempted from arch/s390/lib/spinlock (or smp_vcpu_scheduled from smp.c)
>
> Maybe something like
> (untested and just pasted, so white space damaged)
Now tested. With 8 host cpus and 16 guest cpus perf bench sched shows the
same improvements as in Pan Xinhuis cover letter.
Also the runtime shrinks a lot.
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/spinlock.h
> index 63ebf37..6e82986 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/spinlock.h
> +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/spinlock.h
> @@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ _raw_compare_and_swap(unsigned int *lock, unsigned int old, unsigned int new)
> return __sync_bool_compare_and_swap(lock, old, new);
> }
>
> +int arch_vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu);
> +#define vcpu_is_preempted cpu_is_preempted
> +static inline bool cpu_is_preempted(int cpu)
> +{
> + return arch_vcpu_is_preempted(cpu);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Simple spin lock operations. There are two variants, one clears IRQ's
> * on the local processor, one does not.
> diff --git a/arch/s390/lib/spinlock.c b/arch/s390/lib/spinlock.c
> index e5f50a7..260d179 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/lib/spinlock.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/lib/spinlock.c
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static inline void _raw_compare_and_delay(unsigned int *lock, unsigned int old)
> asm(".insn rsy,0xeb0000000022,%0,0,%1" : : "d" (old), "Q" (*lock));
> }
>
> -static inline int cpu_is_preempted(int cpu)
> +int arch_vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu)
> {
> if (test_cpu_flag_of(CIF_ENABLED_WAIT, cpu))
> return 0;
> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ static inline int cpu_is_preempted(int cpu)
> return 0;
> return 1;
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_vcpu_is_preempted);
>
> void arch_spin_lock_wait(arch_spinlock_t *lp)
> {
>
>
>
> If ok I can respin into a proper patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-29 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-21 11:45 [PATCH v3 0/4] implement vcpu preempted check Pan Xinhui
2016-07-21 11:45 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] kernel/sched: introduce vcpu preempted check interface Pan Xinhui
2016-07-21 11:45 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] powerpc/spinlock: support vcpu preempted check Pan Xinhui
2016-07-21 11:45 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] locking/osq: Drop the overhead of osq_lock() Pan Xinhui
2016-07-21 11:45 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] kernel/locking: Drop the overhead of {mutex, rwsem}_spin_on_owner Pan Xinhui
2016-09-29 10:10 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] implement vcpu preempted check Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-29 10:23 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-09-29 10:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-30 5:03 ` Pan Xinhui
2016-09-30 6:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-30 8:52 ` Pan Xinhui
2016-09-30 9:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-30 9:31 ` Pan Xinhui
2016-09-30 10:44 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-09-29 10:40 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-09-29 11:05 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2016-09-30 4:00 ` Pan Xinhui
2016-10-05 11:00 ` Christian Borntraeger
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