linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support

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Date:	Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:15:58 -0400
From:	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>
To:	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@...il.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@...com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@...com>,
	Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support

On 04/07/2014 01:51 PM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> On 04/07/2014 10:08 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
>> On 04/07/2014 02:14 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> [...]
>>> But I am seeing hang in overcommit cases. Gdb showed that many vcpus
>>> are halted and there was no progress. Suspecting the problem /race with
>>> halting, I removed the halt() part of kvm_hibernate().  I am yet to
>>> take a closer look at the code on halt() related changes.
>>
>> It seems like there may still be race conditions where the current code
>> is not handling correctly. I will look into that to see where the
>> problem is. BTW, what test do you use to produce the hang condition?
>
> Running ebizzy on 2 of the vms simultaneously (for sometime in 
> repeated loop) could reproduce it.
>

Yes, I am able to reproduce the hang problem with ebizzy. BTW, could you 
try to apply the attached patch file on top of the v8 patch series to 
see if it can fix the hang problem?

>
>> What is the baseline for the performance improvement? Is it without the
>> unfair lock and PV qspinlock?
>
> Baseline was 3.14-rc8 without any of the qspin patch series.
>

Does the baseline have PV ticketlock or without any PV support?

-Longman

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