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authorRaghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-07-18 19:07:46 +0530
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2012-07-23 13:01:52 +0300
commit4c088493c8d07e4e27bad53a99dcfdc14cdf45f8 (patch)
treeb90cfa07e207bb938b6997ae62c774c0624b0dd6
parentf2a743473194a1ad44a85f8b63aeef9d63e5bf47 (diff)
KVM: Note down when cpu relax intercepted or pause loop exited
Noting pause loop exited vcpu or cpu relax intercepted helps in filtering right candidate to yield. Wrong selection of vcpu; i.e., a vcpu that just did a pl-exit or cpu relax intercepted may contribute to performance degradation. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> # on s390x Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kvm_host.h34
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c5
2 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index db9aa917840a..361b36fe7ecc 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -183,6 +183,18 @@ struct kvm_vcpu {
} async_pf;
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT
+ /*
+ * Cpu relax intercept or pause loop exit optimization
+ * in_spin_loop: set when a vcpu does a pause loop exit
+ * or cpu relax intercepted.
+ * dy_eligible: indicates whether vcpu is eligible for directed yield.
+ */
+ struct {
+ bool in_spin_loop;
+ bool dy_eligible;
+ } spin_loop;
+#endif
struct kvm_vcpu_arch arch;
};
@@ -898,5 +910,27 @@ static inline bool kvm_check_request(int req, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
}
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT
+
+static inline void kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool val)
+{
+ vcpu->spin_loop.in_spin_loop = val;
+}
+static inline void kvm_vcpu_set_dy_eligible(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool val)
+{
+ vcpu->spin_loop.dy_eligible = val;
+}
+
+#else /* !CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT */
+
+static inline void kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool val)
+{
+}
+
+static inline void kvm_vcpu_set_dy_eligible(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool val)
+{
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT */
#endif
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 68dda513cd72..0892b75eeedd 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ int kvm_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm *kvm, unsigned id)
}
vcpu->run = page_address(page);
+ kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(vcpu, false);
+ kvm_vcpu_set_dy_eligible(vcpu, false);
+
r = kvm_arch_vcpu_init(vcpu);
if (r < 0)
goto fail_free_run;
@@ -1585,6 +1588,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
int pass;
int i;
+ kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(me, true);
/*
* We boost the priority of a VCPU that is runnable but not
* currently running, because it got preempted by something
@@ -1610,6 +1614,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
}
}
}
+ kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(me, false);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vcpu_on_spin);