Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: X86: Bail out of direct yield in case of under-comitted scenarios

[David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>]

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 7:01 PM Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
>
> In case of under-comitted scenarios, vCPU can get scheduling easily,
> kvm_vcpu_yield_to adds extra overhead, we can observe a lot of race
> between vcpu->ready is true and yield fails due to p->state is
> TASK_RUNNING. Let's bail out in such scenarios by checking the length
> of current cpu runqueue, it can be treated as a hint of under-committed
> instead of guarantee of accuracy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
>  * move the check after attempted counting
>  * update patch description
>
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 9b6bca6..dfb7c32 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -8360,6 +8360,9 @@ static void kvm_sched_yield(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long dest_id)
>
>         vcpu->stat.directed_yield_attempted++;
>
> +       if (single_task_running())
> +               goto no_yield;

Since this is a heuristic, do you have any experimental or real world
results that show the benefit?

> +
>         rcu_read_lock();
>         map = rcu_dereference(vcpu->kvm->arch.apic_map);
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>