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authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2016-11-02 10:08:37 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-11-22 12:48:09 +0100
commitde7689cf8f3820b34088da3b22ce1a548dda2fc5 (patch)
tree5c019b1ccf4837968d1a8ebd3a44063f3b9734ef /arch
parentx86/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check (diff)
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x86/xen: Support the vCPU preemption check
Support the vcpu_is_preempted() functionality under Xen. This will enhance lock performance on overcommitted hosts (more runnable vCPUs than physical CPUs in the system) as doing busy waits for preempted vCPUs will hurt system performance far worse than early yielding. A quick test (4 vCPUs on 1 physical CPU doing a parallel build job with "make -j 8") reduced system time by about 5% with this patch. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Cc: xen-devel-request@lists.xenproject.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478077718-37424-11-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
index 3d6e0064cbfc..74756bbd28c4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ void xen_uninit_lock_cpu(int cpu)
per_cpu(irq_name, cpu) = NULL;
}
-
/*
* Our init of PV spinlocks is split in two init functions due to us
* using paravirt patching and jump labels patching and having to do
@@ -137,6 +136,8 @@ void __init xen_init_spinlocks(void)
pv_lock_ops.queued_spin_unlock = PV_CALLEE_SAVE(__pv_queued_spin_unlock);
pv_lock_ops.wait = xen_qlock_wait;
pv_lock_ops.kick = xen_qlock_kick;
+
+ pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted = xen_vcpu_stolen;
}
/*