linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] implement vcpu preempted check

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jul 2016 06:16:02 +0200
From:	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:	Waiman Long <waiman.long@....com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, dave@...olabs.net,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	boqun.feng@...il.com, will.deacon@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	paulus@...ba.org, mpe@...erman.id.au, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	pbonzini@...hat.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] implement vcpu preempted check

On 11/07/16 17:10, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 07/06/2016 02:52 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 10:43:07AM -0400, Pan Xinhui wrote:
>>> change fomr v1:
>>>     a simplier definition of default vcpu_is_preempted
>>>     skip mahcine type check on ppc, and add config. remove dedicated
>>> macro.
>>>     add one patch to drop overload of rwsem_spin_on_owner and
>>> mutex_spin_on_owner.
>>>     add more comments
>>>     thanks boqun and Peter's suggestion.
>>>
>>> This patch set aims to fix lock holder preemption issues.
>>>
>>> test-case:
>>> perf record -a perf bench sched messaging -g 400 -p&&  perf report
>>>
>>> 18.09%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] osq_lock
>>> 12.28%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] rwsem_spin_on_owner
>>>   5.27%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] mutex_unlock
>>>   3.89%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] wait_consider_task
>>>   3.64%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] _raw_write_lock_irq
>>>   3.41%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] mutex_spin_on_owner.is
>>>   2.49%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] system_call
>>>
>>> We introduce interface bool vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu) and use it in
>>> some spin
>>> loops of osq_lock, rwsem_spin_on_owner and mutex_spin_on_owner.
>>> These spin_on_onwer variant also cause rcu stall before we apply this
>>> patch set
>>>
>> Paolo, could you help out with an (x86) KVM interface for this?
>>
>> Waiman, could you see if you can utilize this to get rid of the
>> SPIN_THRESHOLD in qspinlock_paravirt?
> 
> That API is certainly useful to make the paravirt spinlock perform
> better. However, I am not sure if we can completely get rid of the
> SPIN_THRESHOLD at this point. It is not just the kvm, the xen code need
> to be modified as well.

This should be rather easy. The relevant information is included in the
runstate data mapped into kernel memory. I can provide a patch for Xen
if needed.


Juergen