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Message-ID: <20160122135305.3b708888.cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:53:05 +0100
From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/virtio: add ringtest utilities
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:52:32 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
> +#if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
> +#include "x86intrin.h"
> +
> +static inline void wait_cycles(unsigned long long cycles)
> +{
> + unsigned long long t;
> +
> + t = __rdtsc();
> + while (__rdtsc() - t < cycles) {}
> +}
> +
> +#define VMEXIT_CYCLES 500
> +#define VMENTRY_CYCLES 500
#elif defined(__s390x__)
static inline void wait_cycles(unsigned long long cycles)
{
asm volatile("0: brctg %0,0b" : : "d" (cycles));
}
/* tweak me */
#define VMEXIT_CYCLES 200
#define VMENTRY_CYCLES 200
Values are probably off...
> +
> +#else
> +static inline void wait_cycles(unsigned long long cycles)
> +{
> + _Exit(5);
> +}
> +#define VMEXIT_CYCLES 0
> +#define VMENTRY_CYCLES 0
> +#endif
> +/* Compiler barrier - similar to what Linux uses */
> +#define barrier() asm volatile("" ::: "memory")
> +
> +/* Is there a portable way to do this? */
> +#if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
> +#define cpu_relax() asm ("rep; nop" ::: "memory")
> +#else
> +#define cpu_relax() assert(0)
Fall back to barrier() instead?
> +#endif
> diff --git a/tools/virtio/ringtest/run-on-all.sh b/tools/virtio/ringtest/run-on-all.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000..52b0f71
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/virtio/ringtest/run-on-all.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +
> +#use last CPU for host. Why not the first?
> +#many devices tend to use cpu0 by default so
> +#it tends to be busier
> +HOST_AFFINITY=$(cd /dev/cpu; ls|grep -v '[a-z]'|sort -n|tail -1)
> +
> +#run command on all cpus
> +for cpu in $(cd /dev/cpu; ls|grep -v '[a-z]'|sort -n);
How portable is /dev/cpu/? Maybe look in sysfs instead?
> +do
> + #Don't run guest and host on same CPU
> + #It actually works ok if using signalling
> + if
> + (echo "$@" | grep -e "--sleep" > /dev/null) || \
> + test $HOST_AFFINITY '!=' $cpu
> + then
> + echo "GUEST AFFINITY $cpu"
> + "$@" --host-affinity $HOST_AFFINITY --guest-affinity $cpu
> + fi
> +done
> +echo "NO GUEST AFFINITY"
> +"$@" --host-affinity $HOST_AFFINITY
> +echo "NO AFFINITY"
> +"$@"
It did not die on me for a basic (affinityless) run on s390. Let's see
if I find time to look at the actual ring code next week.
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