From 62bea5bff486644ecf363fe8a1a2f6f32c614a49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:27:57 +0200 Subject: KVM: add halt_attempted_poll to VCPU stats This new statistic can help diagnosing VCPUs that, for any reason, trigger bad behavior of halt_poll_ns autotuning. For example, say halt_poll_ns = 480000, and wakeups are spaced exactly like 479us, 481us, 479us, 481us. Then KVM always fails polling and wastes 10+20+40+80+160+320+480 = 1110 microseconds out of every 479+481+479+481+479+481+479 = 3359 microseconds. The VCPU then is consuming about 30% more CPU than it would use without polling. This would show as an abnormally high number of attempted polling compared to the successful polls. Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h index 98eebbf66340..195886a583ba 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h @@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_stat { u32 dec_exits; u32 ext_intr_exits; u32 halt_successful_poll; + u32 halt_attempted_poll; u32 halt_wakeup; u32 dbell_exits; u32 gdbell_exits; -- cgit v1.2.3