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| author | Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> | 2017-12-13 02:33:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> | 2018-01-16 16:34:13 +0100 |
| commit | 858a43aae23672d46fe802a41f4748f322965182 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c895d46933e0a99b5578e12dab93bea0c5af377 /Documentation/virtual | |
| parent | KVM: X86: Add KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED (diff) | |
| download | linux-858a43aae23672d46fe802a41f4748f322965182.tar.xz linux-858a43aae23672d46fe802a41f4748f322965182.zip | |
KVM: X86: use paravirtualized TLB Shootdown
Remote TLB flush does a busy wait which is fine in bare-metal
scenario. But with-in the guest, the vcpus might have been pre-empted or
blocked. In this scenario, the initator vcpu would end up busy-waiting
for a long amount of time; it also consumes CPU unnecessarily to wake
up the target of the shootdown.
This patch set adds support for KVM's new paravirtualized TLB flush;
remote TLB flush does not wait for vcpus that are sleeping, instead
KVM will flush the TLB as soon as the vCPU starts running again.
The improvement is clearly visible when the host is overcommitted; in this
case, the PV TLB flush (in addition to avoiding the wait on the main CPU)
prevents preempted vCPUs from stealing precious execution time from the
running ones.
Testing on a Xeon Gold 6142 2.6GHz 2 sockets, 32 cores, 64 threads,
so 64 pCPUs, and each VM is 64 vCPUs.
ebizzy -M
vanilla optimized boost
1VM 46799 48670 4%
2VM 23962 42691 78%
3VM 16152 37539 132%
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt index 3c65feb83010..dcab6dc11e3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt @@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT || 7 || guest checks this feature bit || || before enabling paravirtualized || || spinlock support. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +KVM_FEATURE_PV_TLB_FLUSH || 9 || guest checks this feature bit + || || before enabling paravirtualized + || || tlb flush. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT || 24 || host will warn if no guest-side || || per-cpu warps are expected in || || kvmclock. |