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From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: "Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	"Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>,
	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	"George Dunlap" <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	"Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"Ian Jackson" <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	"Tim Deegan" <tim@xen.org>, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	"Dario Faggioli" <dfaggioli@suse.com>,
	"Volodymyr Babchuk" <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>,
	"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 35/48] xen/sched: add fall back to idle vcpu when scheduling unit
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 12:33:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6cc5a569-04a2-ab5e-4015-60cedb986b5e@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190809145833.1020-36-jgross@suse.com>

Hi Juergen,

On 8/9/19 3:58 PM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> When scheduling an unit with multiple vcpus there is no guarantee all
> vcpus are available (e.g. above maxvcpus or vcpu offline). Fall back to
> idle vcpu of the current cpu in that case. This requires to store the
> correct schedule_unit pointer in the idle vcpu as long as it used as
> fallback vcpu.
> 
> In order to modify the runstates of the correct vcpus when switching
> schedule units merge sched_unit_runstate_change() into
> sched_switch_units() and loop over the affected physical cpus instead
> of the unit's vcpus. This in turn requires an access function to the
> current variable of other cpus.
> 
> Today context_saved() is called in case previous and next vcpus differ
> when doing a context switch. With an idle vcpu being capable to be a
> substitute for an offline vcpu this is problematic when switching to
> an idle scheduling unit. An idle previous vcpu leaves us in doubt which
> schedule unit was active previously, so save the previous unit pointer
> in the per-schedule resource area and use its value being non-NULL as
> a hint whether context_saved() should be called.
> 
> When running an idle vcpu in a non-idle scheduling unit use a specific
> guest idle loop not performing any tasklets and livepatching in order
> to avoid populating the cpu caches with memory used by other domains
> (as far as possible). Softirqs are considered to be save.
> 
> In order to avoid livepatching when going to guest idle another
> variant of reset_stack_and_jump() not calling check_for_livepatch_work
> is needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

I haven't looked at the full patch. The arm change is quite minimal, so 
for just arm-bits:

Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall

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Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-09 14:57 [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 00/48] xen: add core scheduling support Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 01/48] xen/sched: use new sched_unit instead of vcpu in scheduler interfaces Juergen Gross
2019-09-02  9:07   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-09  5:26     ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 02/48] xen/sched: move per-vcpu scheduler private data pointer to sched_unit Juergen Gross
2019-08-23 10:47   ` Dario Faggioli
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 03/48] xen/sched: build a linked list of struct sched_unit Juergen Gross
2019-08-23 10:52   ` Dario Faggioli
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 04/48] xen/sched: introduce struct sched_resource Juergen Gross
2019-08-23 10:54   ` Dario Faggioli
2019-09-04 13:10   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-09  5:31     ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 05/48] xen/sched: let pick_cpu return a scheduler resource Juergen Gross
2019-09-04 13:34   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-09  5:43     ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 06/48] xen/sched: switch schedule_data.curr to point at sched_unit Juergen Gross
2019-09-04 13:36   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-09  5:46     ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 07/48] xen/sched: move per cpu scheduler private data into struct sched_resource Juergen Gross
2019-09-04 13:48   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-05  7:13     ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-05  7:38       ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-09 13:03         ` Dario Faggioli
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 08/48] xen/sched: switch vcpu_schedule_lock to unit_schedule_lock Juergen Gross
2019-09-04 14:02   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-04 14:41     ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-04 14:54       ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-04 15:02         ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 16:02           ` Dario Faggioli
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 09/48] xen/sched: move some per-vcpu items to struct sched_unit Juergen Gross
2019-09-04 14:16   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-09  6:39     ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-09  6:55       ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-09  7:05         ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 10/48] xen/sched: add scheduler helpers hiding vcpu Juergen Gross
2019-09-04 14:49   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-11 13:22     ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 11/48] xen/sched: rename scheduler related perf counters Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 12/48] xen/sched: switch struct task_slice from vcpu to sched_unit Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 13/48] xen/sched: add is_running indicator to struct sched_unit Juergen Gross
2019-09-04 15:06   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-11 13:44     ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 15:06       ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-11 15:32         ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 14/48] xen/sched: make null scheduler vcpu agnostic Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 15/48] xen/sched: make rt " Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 16/48] xen/sched: make credit " Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 17/48] xen/sched: make credit2 " Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 18/48] xen/sched: make arinc653 " Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 19/48] xen: add sched_unit_pause_nosync() and sched_unit_unpause() Juergen Gross
2019-09-09 13:34   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-11 14:15     ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 20/48] xen: let vcpu_create() select processor Juergen Gross
2019-08-23 16:42   ` Julien Grall
2019-09-09 13:38   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-11 14:22     ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 17:20       ` Dario Faggioli
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 21/48] xen/sched: use sched_resource cpu instead smp_processor_id in schedulers Juergen Gross
2019-09-09 14:17   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-12  9:34     ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-12 10:04       ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-12 11:03         ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-12 11:17         ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-12 11:46           ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-12 11:53             ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-12 12:08               ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-12 12:13                 ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 22/48] xen/sched: switch schedule() from vcpus to sched_units Juergen Gross
2019-09-09 14:35   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-12 13:44     ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-12 14:34       ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 23/48] xen/sched: switch sched_move_irqs() to take sched_unit as parameter Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 24/48] xen: switch from for_each_vcpu() to for_each_sched_unit() Juergen Gross
2019-09-09 15:14   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-12 14:02     ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-12 14:40       ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-12 14:47         ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 25/48] xen/sched: add runstate counters to struct sched_unit Juergen Gross
2019-09-09 14:30   ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 26/48] xen/sched: rework and rename vcpu_force_reschedule() Juergen Gross
2019-09-10 14:06   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-13  9:33     ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-13  9:40       ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 27/48] xen/sched: Change vcpu_migrate_*() to operate on schedule unit Juergen Gross
2019-09-10 15:11   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-13 12:33     ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 28/48] xen/sched: move struct task_slice into struct sched_unit Juergen Gross
2019-09-10 15:18   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-13 12:56     ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-12  8:13   ` Dario Faggioli
2019-09-12  8:21     ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 29/48] xen/sched: add code to sync scheduling of all vcpus of a sched unit Juergen Gross
2019-09-10 15:36   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-13 13:12     ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 30/48] xen/sched: introduce unit_runnable_state() Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 10:30   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-12 10:22     ` Dario Faggioli
2019-09-13 14:07     ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-13 14:44       ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-13 15:23         ` Juergen Gross
2019-09-12 10:24   ` Dario Faggioli
2019-09-13 14:14     ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 31/48] xen/sched: add support for multiple vcpus per sched unit where missing Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 10:43   ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-13 15:01     ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 32/48] xen/sched: modify cpupool_domain_cpumask() to be an unit mask Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 33/48] xen/sched: support allocating multiple vcpus into one sched unit Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 34/48] xen/sched: add a percpu resource index Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 35/48] xen/sched: add fall back to idle vcpu when scheduling unit Juergen Gross
2019-09-11 11:33   ` Julien Grall [this message]
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 36/48] xen/sched: make vcpu_wake() and vcpu_sleep() core scheduling aware Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 37/48] xen/sched: carve out freeing sched_unit memory into dedicated function Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 38/48] xen/sched: move per-cpu variable scheduler to struct sched_resource Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 39/48] xen/sched: move per-cpu variable cpupool " Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 40/48] xen/sched: reject switching smt on/off with core scheduling active Juergen Gross
2019-09-10 15:47   ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 41/48] xen/sched: prepare per-cpupool scheduling granularity Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 42/48] xen/sched: split schedule_cpu_switch() Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 43/48] xen/sched: protect scheduling resource via rcu Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 44/48] xen/sched: support multiple cpus per scheduling resource Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 45/48] xen/sched: support differing granularity in schedule_cpu_[add/rm]() Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 46/48] xen/sched: support core scheduling for moving cpus to/from cpupools Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 47/48] xen/sched: disable scheduling when entering ACPI deep sleep states Juergen Gross
2019-08-09 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 48/48] xen/sched: add scheduling granularity enum Juergen Gross
2019-08-15 10:17 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 00/48] xen: add core scheduling support Sergey Dyasli
2019-09-05  6:22   ` Juergen Gross

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