Hi Usama, Usama Arif <usama.arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This patchset adds support for vcpu_is_preempted in arm64, which allows the guest > to check if a vcpu was scheduled out, which is useful to know incase it was > holding a lock. vcpu_is_preempted can be used to improve > performance in locking (see owner_on_cpu usage in mutex_spin_on_owner, > mutex_can_spin_on_owner, rtmutex_spin_on_owner and osq_lock) and scheduling > (see available_idle_cpu which is used in several places in kernel/sched/fair.c > for e.g. in wake_affine to determine which CPU can run soonest): > > This patchset shows improvement on overcommitted hosts (vCPUs > pCPUS), as waiting > for preempted vCPUs reduces performance. > > This patchset is inspired from the para_steal_clock implementation and from the > work originally done by Zengruan Ye: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20191226135833.1052-1-yezengruan@xxxxxxxxxx/. > > All the results in the below experiments are done on an aws r6g.metal instance > which has 64 pCPUs. > > The following table shows the index results of UnixBench running on a 128 vCPU VM > with (6.0.0+vcpu_is_preempted) and without (6.0.0 base) the patchset. > TestName 6.0.0 base 6.0.0+vcpu_is_preempted % improvement for vcpu_is_preempted > Dhrystone 2 using register variables 187761 191274.7 1.871368389 > Double-Precision Whetstone 96743.6 98414.4 1.727039308 > Execl Throughput 689.3 10426 1412.548963 > File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 549.5 3165 475.978162 > File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 400.7 2084.7 420.2645371 > File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 894.3 5003.2 459.4543218 > Pipe Throughput 76819.5 78601.5 2.319723508 > Pipe-based Context Switching 3444.8 13414.5 289.4130283 > Process Creation 301.1 293.4 -2.557289937 > Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1248.1 28300.6 2167.494592 > Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 781.2 26222.3 3256.669227 > System Call Overhead 3426 3729.4 8.855808523 > > System Benchmarks Index Score 3053 11534 277.7923354 > > This shows a 277% overall improvement using these patches. > > The biggest improvement is in the shell scripts benchmark, which forks a lot of processes. > This acquires rwsem lock where a large chunk of time is spent in base 6.0.0 kernel. > This can be seen from one of the callstack of the perf output of the shell > scripts benchmark on 6.0.0 base (pseudo NMI enabled for perf numbers below): > - 33.79% el0_svc > - 33.43% do_el0_svc > - 33.43% el0_svc_common.constprop.3 > - 33.30% invoke_syscall > - 17.27% __arm64_sys_clone > - 17.27% __do_sys_clone > - 17.26% kernel_clone > - 16.73% copy_process > - 11.91% dup_mm > - 11.82% dup_mmap > - 9.15% down_write > - 8.87% rwsem_down_write_slowpath > - 8.48% osq_lock > > Just under 50% of the total time in the shell script benchmarks ends up being > spent in osq_lock in the base 6.0.0 kernel: > Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol > 17.19% 10.71% sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 6.17% 4.04% sort [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 4.20% 2.60% multi. [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 3.77% 2.47% grep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 3.50% 2.24% expr [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 3.41% 2.23% od [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 3.36% 2.15% rm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 3.28% 2.12% tee [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 3.16% 2.02% wc [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 0.21% 0.13% looper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 0.01% 0.00% Run [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > > and this comes down to less than 1% total with 6.0.0+vcpu_is_preempted kernel: > Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol > 0.26% 0.21% sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 0.10% 0.08% multi. [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 0.04% 0.04% sort [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 0.02% 0.01% grep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 0.02% 0.02% od [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 0.01% 0.01% tee [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 0.01% 0.00% expr [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 0.01% 0.01% looper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 0.00% 0.00% wc [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > 0.00% 0.00% rm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > > To make sure, there is no change in performance when vCPUs < pCPUs, UnixBench > was run on a 32 CPU VM. The kernel with vcpu_is_preempted implemented > performed 0.9% better overall than base kernel, and the individual benchmarks > were within +/-2% improvement over 6.0.0 base. > Hence the patches have no negative affect when vCPUs < pCPUs. > > > The other method discussed in https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20191226135833.1052-1-yezengruan@xxxxxxxxxx/ > was pv conditional yield by Marc Zyngier and Will Deacon to reduce vCPU reschedule > if the vCPU will exit immediately. > (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/log/?h=kvm-arm64/pvcy). > The patches were ported to 6.0.0 kernel and tested with UnixBench with a 128 vCPU VM: > > TestName 6.0.0 base 6.0.0+pvcy % improvement for pvcy > Dhrystone 2 using register variables 187761 183128 -2.467498575 > Double-Precision Whetstone 96743.6 96645 -0.101918887 > Execl Throughput 689.3 1019.8 47.9471928 > File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 549.5 2029.7 269.3721565 > File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 400.7 1439.4 259.2213626 > File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 894.3 3434.1 283.9986582 > Pipe Throughput 76819.5 74268.8 -3.320380893 > Pipe-based Context Switching 3444.8 5963.3 73.11019508 > Process Creation 301.1 163.2 -45.79873796 > Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1248.1 1859.7 49.00248378 > Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 781.2 1171 49.89759345 > System Call Overhead 3426 3194.4 -6.760070053 > > System Benchmarks Index Score 3053 4605 50.83524402 > > pvcy shows a smaller overall improvement (50%) compared to vcpu_is_preempted (277%). > Host side flamegraph analysis shows that ~60% of the host time when using pvcy > is spent in kvm_handle_wfx, compared with ~1.5% when using vcpu_is_preempted, > hence vcpu_is_preempted shows a larger improvement. > > It might be that pvcy can be used in combination with vcpu_is_preempted, but this > series is to start a discussion on vcpu_is_preempted as it shows a much bigger > improvement in performance and its much easier to review vcpu_is_preempted standalone. Looking at both the patchsets - this one and the pvcy, it looks to me that vcpu_is_preempted() and the pvcy patches are somewhat orthogonal. The former is optimizing mutex and rwsem in their optimistic spinning phase while the latter is going after spinlocks (via wfe). Unless I'm missing something the features are not necessarily comparable on the same workloads - unixbench is probably mutex heavy and doesn't show as much benefit with just the pvcy changes. I wonder if it's easy to have both the features enabled to see this in effect. I've left some comments on the patches; but no need to respin just yet. Let's see if there is any other feedback. Thanks, Punit [...] _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
