linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] kvm: Improving directed yield in PLE handler

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Message-ID: <4FFBE76A.3090902@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:57:22 +0530
From:	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	S390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
	Carsten Otte <cotte@...ibm.com>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	chegu vinod <chegu_vinod@...com>,
	"Andrew M. Theurer" <habanero@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, X86 <x86@...nel.org>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>, linux390@...ibm.com,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <srivatsa.vaddagiri@...il.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] kvm: Improving directed yield in PLE handler

On 07/09/2012 01:25 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 09/07/12 08:20, Raghavendra K T wrote:
>> Currently Pause Looop Exit (PLE) handler is doing directed yield to a
>> random VCPU on PL exit. Though we already have filtering while choosing
>> the candidate to yield_to, we can do better.
>>
>> Problem is, for large vcpu guests, we have more probability of yielding
>> to a bad vcpu. We are not able to prevent directed yield to same guy who
>> has done PL exit recently, who perhaps spins again and wastes CPU.
>>
>> Fix that by keeping track of who has done PL exit. So The Algorithm in series
>> give chance to a VCPU which has:
>
>
> We could do the same for s390. The appropriate exit would be diag44 (yield to hypervisor).
>
> Almost all s390 kernels use diag9c (directed yield to a given guest cpu) for spinlocks, though.
> So there is no win here, but there are other cases were diag44 is used, e.g. cpu_relax.
> I have to double check with others, if these cases are critical, but for now, it seems
> that your dummy implementation  for s390 is just fine. After all it is a no-op until
> we implement something.
>

Thanks for the review. Nice to know that, patch has potential to help 
s390 also.


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