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From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: Make hyperv_clock selftest more stable
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 11:07:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a20d49f5a18ecd3a76a96dec01ad592a59bdc3f.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YpeOkx0gkINeKFuz@google.com>

On Wed, 2022-06-01 at 16:06 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2022, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> > hyperv_clock doesn't always give a stable test result, especially
> > with
> > AMD CPUs. The test compares Hyper-V MSR clocksource (acquired
> > either
> > with rdmsr() from within the guest or KVM_GET_MSRS from the host)
> > against rdtsc(). To increase the accuracy, increase the measured
> > delay
> > (done with nop loop) by two orders of magnitude and take the mean
> > rdtsc()
> > value before and after rdmsr()/KVM_GET_MSRS.
> 
> Rather than "fixing" the test by reducing the impact of noise, can we
> first try
> to reduce the noise itself?  E.g. pin the test to a single CPU, redo
> the measurement

Pinning is a good idea overall, however IMHO should not be done in 
all KVM selftests, as vCPU migration itself can be source of bugs.


> if the test is interrupted (/proc/interrupts?), etc...  Bonus points
This is not feasable IMHO - timer interrupt alone can fire at rate of
1000 interrupts/s. Just while reading /proc/interurpts you probably get
few of interrupts.


> if that can
> be implemented as a helper or pair of helpers so that other tests
> that want to
> measure latency/time don't need to reinvent the wheel.
> 

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-07  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-01 14:43 [PATCH] KVM: selftests: Make hyperv_clock selftest more stable Vitaly Kuznetsov
2022-06-01 16:06 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-06-02 13:34   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2022-06-07  8:07   ` Maxim Levitsky [this message]
2022-06-07  8:26 ` Maxim Levitsky
2022-06-07 15:22 ` Paolo Bonzini

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