linux/virt/kvm
Wanpeng Li 52acd22faa KVM: Boost vCPU candidate in user mode which is delivering interrupt
Both lock holder vCPU and IPI receiver that has halted are condidate for
boost. However, the PLE handler was originally designed to deal with the
lock holder preemption problem. The Intel PLE occurs when the spinlock
waiter is in kernel mode. This assumption doesn't hold for IPI receiver,
they can be in either kernel or user mode. the vCPU candidate in user mode
will not be boosted even if they should respond to IPIs. Some benchmarks
like pbzip2, swaptions etc do the TLB shootdown in kernel mode and most
of the time they are running in user mode. It can lead to a large number
of continuous PLE events because the IPI sender causes PLE events
repeatedly until the receiver is scheduled while the receiver is not
candidate for a boost.

This patch boosts the vCPU candidiate in user mode which is delivery
interrupt. We can observe the speed of pbzip2 improves 10% in 96 vCPUs
VM in over-subscribe scenario (The host machine is 2 socket, 48 cores,
96 HTs Intel CLX box). There is no performance regression for other
benchmarks like Unixbench spawn (most of the time contend read/write
lock in kernel mode), ebizzy (most of the time contend read/write sem
and TLB shoodtdown in kernel mode).

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Message-Id: <1618542490-14756-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2021-04-21 12:20:03 -04:00
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async_pf.c mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code 2020-08-12 10:58:04 -07:00
async_pf.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 504 2019-06-19 17:09:56 +02:00
coalesced_mmio.c KVM: Stop looking for coalesced MMIO zones if the bus is destroyed 2021-04-20 04:18:51 -04:00
coalesced_mmio.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
dirty_ring.c KVM: x86/mmu: Use an rwlock for the x86 MMU 2021-02-04 05:27:43 -05:00
eventfd.c kvm/eventfd: Drain events from eventfd in irqfd_wakeup() 2020-11-15 09:49:11 -05:00
irqchip.c KVM/arm updates for 5.3 2019-07-11 15:14:16 +02:00
Kconfig entry: Provide infrastructure for work before transitioning to guest mode 2020-07-24 15:03:42 +02:00
kvm_main.c KVM: Boost vCPU candidate in user mode which is delivering interrupt 2021-04-21 12:20:03 -04:00
mmu_lock.h KVM: x86/mmu: Use an rwlock for the x86 MMU 2021-02-04 05:27:43 -05:00
vfio.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
vfio.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00