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Wanpeng Li committed d73eb57b80b
KVM: Boost vCPUs that are delivering interrupts
Inspired by commit 9cac38dd5d (KVM/s390: Set preempted flag during
vcpu wakeup and interrupt delivery), we want to also boost not just
lock holders but also vCPUs that are delivering interrupts. Most
smp_call_function_many calls are synchronous, so the IPI target vCPUs
are also good yield candidates. This patch introduces vcpu->ready to
boost vCPUs during wakeup and interrupt delivery time; unlike s390 we do
not reuse vcpu->preempted so that voluntarily preempted vCPUs are taken
into account by kvm_vcpu_on_spin, but vmx_vcpu_pi_put is not affected
(VT-d PI handles voluntary preemption separately, in pi_pre_block).
Testing on 80 HT 2 socket Xeon Skylake server, with 80 vCPUs VM 80GB RAM:
ebizzy -M
vanilla boosting improved
1VM 21443 23520 9%
2VM 2800 8000 180%
3VM 1800 3100 72%
Testing on my Haswell desktop 8 HT, with 8 vCPUs VM 8GB RAM, two VMs,
one running ebizzy -M, the other running 'stress --cpu 2':
w/ boosting + w/o pv sched yield(vanilla)
vanilla boosting improved
1570 4000 155%
w/ boosting + w/ pv sched yield(vanilla)
vanilla boosting improved
1844 5157 179%
w/o boosting, perf top in VM:
72.33% [kernel] [k] smp_call_function_many
4.22% [kernel] [k] call_function_i
3.71% [kernel] [k] async_page_fault
w/ boosting, perf top in VM:
38.43% [kernel] [k] smp_call_function_many
6.31% [kernel] [k] async_page_fault
6.13% libc-2.23.so [.] __memcpy_avx_unaligned
4.88% [kernel] [k] call_function_interrupt
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>