From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
<kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>,
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/18] KVM: arm64: spe: Provide guest virtual interrupts for SPE
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 13:46:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ddd39371e1aa95747d42efdb55f73b51@www.loen.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191224133647.GO42593@e119886-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
On 2019-12-24 13:36, Andrew Murray wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 01:22:46PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 2019-12-24 13:08, Andrew Murray wrote:
[...]
>> > This does feel like the pragmatic approach - a larger black hole
>> in
>> > exchange
>> > for performance. I imagine the blackhole would be naturally
>> reduced on
>> > machines with high workloads.
>>
>> Why? I don't see the relation between how busy the vcpu is and the
>> size
>> of the blackhole. It is strictly a function of the frequency of
>> exits.
>
> Indeed, my assumption being that the busier a system is the more
> interrupts, thus leading to more exits and so an increased frequency
> of
> SPE interrupt evaluation and thus smaller black hole.
On a GICv4-enabled system, this isn't true anymore. My bet is that
people won't use SPE to optimize IO-oriented workloads, but more CPU
intensive workloads (that don't necessarily exit at all).
But never mind. Let's start with this approach, as it is simple and
easy
to verify. If the black hole aspect becomes problematic, we know how
to reduce it (at the expense of entry/exit performance).
M.
--
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-24 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-20 14:30 [PATCH v2 00/18] arm64: KVM: add SPE profiling support Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 01/18] dt-bindings: ARM SPE: highlight the need for PPI partitions on heterogeneous systems Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 02/18] arm64: KVM: reset E2PB correctly in MDCR_EL2 when exiting the guest(VHE) Andrew Murray
2019-12-21 13:12 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-24 10:29 ` Andrew Murray
2020-01-02 16:21 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 03/18] arm64: KVM: define SPE data structure for each vcpu Andrew Murray
2019-12-21 13:19 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-24 12:01 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 04/18] arm64: KVM: add SPE system registers to sys_reg_descs Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 05/18] arm64: KVM/VHE: enable the use PMSCR_EL12 on VHE systems Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 06/18] arm64: KVM: split debug save restore across vm/traps activation Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 07/18] arm64: KVM/debug: drop pmscr_el1 and use sys_regs[PMSCR_EL1] in kvm_cpu_context Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 08/18] arm64: KVM: add support to save/restore SPE profiling buffer controls Andrew Murray
2019-12-21 13:57 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-24 10:49 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-24 15:17 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-24 15:48 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 09/18] arm64: KVM: enable conditional save/restore full " Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 18:06 ` Mark Rutland
2019-12-24 12:15 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-21 14:13 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-01-07 15:13 ` Andrew Murray
2020-01-08 11:17 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-01-08 11:58 ` Will Deacon
2020-01-08 12:36 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-01-08 13:10 ` Will Deacon
2020-01-09 11:23 ` Andrew Murray
2020-01-09 11:25 ` Andrew Murray
2020-01-09 12:01 ` Will Deacon
2020-01-10 10:54 ` Andrew Murray
2020-01-10 11:04 ` Andrew Murray
2020-01-10 11:51 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-01-10 12:12 ` Andrew Murray
2020-01-10 11:18 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-01-10 12:12 ` Andrew Murray
2020-01-10 13:34 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 10/18] arm64: KVM/debug: use EL1&0 stage 1 translation regime Andrew Murray
2019-12-22 10:34 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-24 11:11 ` Andrew Murray
2020-01-13 16:31 ` Andrew Murray
2020-01-15 14:03 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 11/18] KVM: arm64: don't trap Statistical Profiling controls to EL2 Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 18:08 ` Mark Rutland
2019-12-22 10:42 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-23 11:56 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-23 12:05 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-23 12:10 ` Andrew Murray
2020-01-09 17:25 ` Andrew Murray
2020-01-09 17:42 ` Mark Rutland
2020-01-09 17:46 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 12/18] KVM: arm64: add a new vcpu device control group for SPEv1 Andrew Murray
2019-12-22 11:03 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-24 12:30 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 13/18] perf: arm_spe: Add KVM structure for obtaining IRQ info Andrew Murray
2019-12-22 11:24 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-24 12:35 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 14/18] KVM: arm64: spe: Provide guest virtual interrupts for SPE Andrew Murray
2019-12-22 12:07 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-24 11:50 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-24 12:42 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-24 13:08 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-24 13:22 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-24 13:36 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-24 13:46 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 15/18] perf: arm_spe: Handle guest/host exclusion flags Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 18:10 ` Mark Rutland
2019-12-22 12:10 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-23 12:10 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-23 12:18 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 16/18] KVM: arm64: enable SPE support Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 17/18, KVMTOOL] update_headers: Sync kvm UAPI headers with linux v5.5-rc2 Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 18/18, KVMTOOL] kvm: add a vcpu feature for SPEv1 support Andrew Murray
2019-12-20 17:55 ` [PATCH v2 00/18] arm64: KVM: add SPE profiling support Mark Rutland
2019-12-24 12:54 ` Andrew Murray
2019-12-21 10:48 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-22 12:22 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-12-24 12:56 ` Andrew Murray
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