From 2cffe9f6b96fece065ee8522673c90e92ef2085d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcelo Tosatti Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 20:51:28 -0300 Subject: cpuidle: add haltpoll governor The cpuidle_haltpoll governor, in conjunction with the haltpoll cpuidle driver, allows guest vcpus to poll for a specified amount of time before halting. This provides the following benefits to host side polling: 1) The POLL flag is set while polling is performed, which allows a remote vCPU to avoid sending an IPI (and the associated cost of handling the IPI) when performing a wakeup. 2) The VM-exit cost can be avoided. The downside of guest side polling is that polling is performed even with other runnable tasks in the host. Results comparing halt_poll_ns and server/client application where a small packet is ping-ponged: host --> 31.33 halt_poll_ns=300000 / no guest busy spin --> 33.40 (93.8%) halt_poll_ns=0 / guest_halt_poll_ns=300000 --> 32.73 (95.7%) For the SAP HANA benchmarks (where idle_spin is a parameter of the previous version of the patch, results should be the same): hpns == halt_poll_ns idle_spin=0/ idle_spin=800/ idle_spin=0/ hpns=200000 hpns=0 hpns=800000 DeleteC06T03 (100 thread) 1.76 1.71 (-3%) 1.78 (+1%) InsertC16T02 (100 thread) 2.14 2.07 (-3%) 2.18 (+1.8%) DeleteC00T01 (1 thread) 1.34 1.28 (-4.5%) 1.29 (-3.7%) UpdateC00T03 (1 thread) 4.72 4.18 (-12%) 4.53 (-5%) Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki --- drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig') diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig b/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig index cc8efc56be7d..88727b7c0d59 100644 --- a/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig @@ -33,6 +33,17 @@ config CPU_IDLE_GOV_TEO Some workloads benefit from using it and it generally should be safe to use. Say Y here if you are not happy with the alternatives. +config CPU_IDLE_GOV_HALTPOLL + bool "Haltpoll governor (for virtualized systems)" + depends on KVM_GUEST + help + This governor implements haltpoll idle state selection, to be + used in conjunction with the haltpoll cpuidle driver, allowing + for polling for a certain amount of time before entering idle + state. + + Some virtualized workloads benefit from using it. + config DT_IDLE_STATES bool -- cgit v1.2.3