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| author | Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> | 2013-10-08 18:38:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> | 2013-10-17 15:26:50 -0700 |
| commit | 58d5ec8f8ee318b26b29207874fbaee626973952 (patch) | |
| tree | bf3fdfd27af3c947c51fa4335009a45433a629f2 /arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig | |
| parent | d570142674890fe10b3d7d86aa105e3dfce1ddfa (diff) | |
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ARM: KVM: Yield CPU when vcpu executes a WFE
On an (even slightly) oversubscribed system, spinlocks are quickly
becoming a bottleneck, as some vcpus are spinning, waiting for a
lock to be released, while the vcpu holding the lock may not be
running at all.
This creates contention, and the observed slowdown is 40x for
hackbench. No, this isn't a typo.
The solution is to trap blocking WFEs and tell KVM that we're
now spinning. This ensures that other vpus will get a scheduling
boost, allowing the lock to be released more quickly. Also, using
CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT slightly improves the performance
when the VM is severely overcommited.
Quick test to estimate the performance: hackbench 1 process 1000
2xA15 host (baseline): 1.843s
2xA15 guest w/o patch: 2.083s
4xA15 guest w/o patch: 80.212s
8xA15 guest w/o patch: Could not be bothered to find out
2xA15 guest w/ patch: 2.102s
4xA15 guest w/ patch: 3.205s
8xA15 guest w/ patch: 6.887s
So we go from a 40x degradation to 1.5x in the 2x overcommit case,
which is vaguely more acceptable.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig index ebf5015508b5..466bd299b1a8 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ config KVM bool "Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support" select PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS select ANON_INODES + select HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT select KVM_MMIO select KVM_ARM_HOST depends on ARM_VIRT_EXT && ARM_LPAE |