From: Yi Sun <yi.y.sun@linux.intel.com>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
chao.p.peng@intel.com, chao.gao@intel.com,
isaku.yamahata@intel.com, michael.h.kelley@microsoft.com,
tianyu.lan@microsoft.com, "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] x86/hyperv: make HvNotifyLongSpinWait hypercall
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 14:54:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181105065431.GF15378@yi.y.sun> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6f6590e-bc46-f8d7-f6dc-5464e37a8f52@redhat.com>
On 18-11-01 08:59:08, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 10/31/2018 11:20 PM, Yi Sun wrote:
> > On 18-10-31 18:15:39, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 11:07:22AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> >>> On 10/31/2018 10:10 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 09:54:17AM +0800, Yi Sun wrote:
> >>>>> On 18-10-23 17:33:28, Yi Sun wrote:
> >>>>>> On 18-10-23 10:51:27, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >>>>>>> Can you try and explain why vcpu_is_preempted() doesn't work for you?
> >>>>>> I thought HvSpinWaitInfo is used to notify hypervisor the spin number
> >>>>>> which is different with vcpu_is_preempted. So I did not consider
> >>>>>> vcpu_is_preempted.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> But HvSpinWaitInfo is a quite simple function and could be combined
> >>>>>> with vcpu_is_preempted together. So I think it is OK to use
> >>>>>> vcpu_is_preempted to make codes clean. I will have a try.
> >>>>> After checking codes, there is one issue to call vcpu_is_preempted.
> >>>>> There are two spin loops in qspinlock_paravirt.h. One loop in
> >>>>> 'pv_wait_node' calls vcpu_is_preempted. But another loop in
> >>>>> 'pv_wait_head_or_lock' does not call vcpu_is_preempted. It also does
> >>>>> not call any other ops of 'pv_lock_ops' in the loop. So I am afraid
> >>>>> we have to add one more ops in 'pv_lock_ops' to do this.
> >>>> Why? Would not something like the below cure that? Waiman, can you have
> >>>> a look at this; I always forget how that paravirt crud works.
> >>> There are two major reasons why the vcpu_is_preempt() test isn't done at
> >>> pv_wait_head_or_lock(). First of all, we may not have a valid prev
> >>> pointer after all if it is the first one to enter the queue while the
> >>> lock is busy. Secondly, because of lock stealing, the cpu number pointed
> >>> by a valid prev pointer may not be the actual cpu that is currently
> >>> holding the lock. Another minor reason is that we want to minimize the
> >>> lock transfer latency and so don't want to sleep too early while waiting
> >>> at the queue head.
> >> So Yi, are you actually seeing a problem? If so, can you give details?
> > Where does the patch come from? I cannot find it through google.
> >
> > Per Waiman's comment, it seems not suitable to call vcpu_is_preempted()
> > in pv_wait_head_or_lock(). So, we cannot make HvSpinWaitInfo notification
> > through vcpu_is_preempted() for such case. Based on that, I suggest to
> > add one more callback function in pv_lock_ops.
>
> I am hesitant to add any additional check at the spinning loop in
> pv_wait_head_or_lock() especially one that is a hypercall or a callback
> that will take time to execute. The testing that I had done in the past
> indicated that it would slow down locking performance especially if the
> VM wasn't overcommitted at all.
>
> Any additional slack in pv_wait_node() can be mitigated by the lock
> stealing that can happen. Slack in pv_wait_head_or_lock(), on the other
> hand, will certainly increase the lock transfer latency and impact
> performance. So you need performance data to show that it is worthwhile
> to do so.
>
Ok, I will make performance test to show if it is worthwhile to call
SpinWaitInfo in pv_wait_head_or_lock.
> As for performance test, the kernel has a builtin locktorture test if
> you configured it in. So show us the performance data with and without
> the patch.
Thank you! I will make performance test for whole patch.
>
> Cheers,
> Longman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-05 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-19 13:13 [PATCH v1 0/2] Enable HvNotifyLongSpinWait for Hyper-V Yi Sun
2018-10-19 13:13 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] x86/hyperv: get spinlock retry number on Hyper-V Yi Sun
2018-10-19 13:13 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] x86/hyperv: make HvNotifyLongSpinWait hypercall Yi Sun
2018-10-19 14:20 ` Juergen Gross
2018-10-22 1:53 ` Yi Sun
2018-10-22 7:32 ` Juergen Gross
2018-10-22 16:31 ` Waiman Long
2018-10-22 17:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-22 17:27 ` Waiman Long
2018-10-22 17:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-22 18:01 ` Waiman Long
2018-10-23 2:57 ` Yi Sun
2018-10-23 8:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-23 9:33 ` Yi Sun
2018-10-31 1:54 ` Yi Sun
2018-10-31 14:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-31 15:07 ` Waiman Long
2018-10-31 17:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 3:20 ` Yi Sun
2018-11-01 8:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 12:59 ` Waiman Long
2018-11-05 6:54 ` Yi Sun [this message]
2018-10-24 16:53 ` Michael Kelley
2018-10-25 2:23 ` Yi Sun
2018-10-31 2:06 ` Yi Sun
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