On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 16:43 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> *update to v4*
> - EMUL_CORE no longer had more than wrtee emulation, therefore it now accounts
> for WRTEE in the output and set_exit_type calls are in the wrtee handlers to
> let any residual core op be counted as EMULINST"
>
> *update to v3*
> - ensure build time optimization when calling exit accouting functions using
> build time bug / constant check
> - migrate most of the exit timing code from powerpc.c and
> kvm_timing_stats.h to a separate exittiming.c file
> - renamed a lot of constants used to better fit generic/core specific code
> - added an accidenially removed optimization comment
> - use pid of userspace process instead of an own atomic count to identify a vm
> - changed loop labels in tul/tbu loops (booke_interrupt.S) to anonymous 1/1b
> - removed the indirection of additional EMULATE_*_DONE types. Instead now
> the exit timing supports "accounting" an exit which consists of set type and
> increase kvm_stat counters. But also provides both sub-tasks as separate
> functions. Using that emulation now sets a default EMUL_INST type that can
> be overwritten by detailed subcategories (set_exit_type). Accouting for
> kvm_stat is done with account_exit_stat for all emulinst exits together on
> top level (as it was before).
>
> *update to v2*
> The update fixes accounting for sets to MSR[WE] which should not be accoutned
> as instruction emulation. While adding that and analyzing the data it became
> obvious that several types of emulations hould be accounted separately.
> I'm not yet really happy with adding all these EMULATE_*_DONE types but I had
> no better idea to not break flood the code with account calls and split
> account/set_type. The issue is that emulation is also called e.g. for some mmio
> paths and therefore the accouting should not be called inside emulation, but on
> the returning path that can now evaluate the different kind of emulations done.
> This is not yet finished, and posted as RFC only.
>
> Other existing kvm statistics are either just counters (kvm_stat) reported for
> kvm generally or trace based aproaches like kvm_trace.
> For kvm on powerpc we had the need to track the timings of the different exit
> types. While this could be achieved parsing data created with a kvm_trace
> extension this adds too muhc overhead (at least on embedded powerpc) slowing
> down the workloads we wanted to measure.
>
> Therefore this patch adds a in kernel exit timing statistic to the powerpc kvm
> code. These statistic is available per vm&vcpu under the kvm debugfs directory.
> As this statistic is low, but still some overhead it can be enabled via a
> .config entry and should be off by default.
>
> Since this patch touched all powerpc kvm_stat code anyway this code is now
> merged and simpliefied together with the exit timing statistic code (still
> working with exit timing disabled in .config).
You forgot to include exittiming.c in this patch. Since I can't build
it, I might as well tell you the additional changes I was going to
make... :)
* Prefix all the functions in kvm_timing_stats.h to begin with
"kvmppc_". (I really like to keep the layering as clear as
possible.) I don't think we need to add "booke" in there, since
a hypothetical kvmppc 970 implementation could use the same
function names, just a different set of exit types.
* Rename kvm_timing_stats.h. Does that need to go in the asm
directory btw? If so, call it kvm_timing.h; if not, please put
it inside arch/powerpc/kvm, and name it timing.h.
* Rename exittiming.c to match whatever you name the header.
* Use empty static functions instead of empty macros in
kvm_timing.h. (I'm not the only one who doesn't like macros; see
http://lwn.net/Articles/306045/)
* I know it's just leftovers from previous iterations of this
patch, but drop the whitespace changes to include/asm/kvm_ppc.h
(and send as a separate patch if you like).
* Remove vm_id from kvm_arch (you just missed this one spot :).
* I don't like the debugfs file names you've chosen, but I'm not
sure what's best. Definitely make them lowercase and omit the
underscore, but the directory layout feels a little odd to me.
Maybe it should be /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/exit_times/vm52/vcpu0/
instead of /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/vm52/vcpu0/exit_times ?
* Remove atomic.h and seq_file.h from arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
* Slight edits for Kconfig:
config KVM_EXIT_TIMING
bool "Detailed exit timing"
depends on KVM
---help---
Calculate elapsed time for every exit/enter cycle. A per-vcpu
report is available in debugfs kvm/vm###/vcpu###_exit_timing.
The overhead is relatively small, however it is not recommended for
production environments.
If unsure, say N.
A lot of the naming stuff is just personal preference, but in general I
feel like the names you chose are too verbose and inconsistent. I've
found that name changes are easiest to do in the unapplied patch itself
with global find/replace.
I'm happy with the rest of what I can see. :) If I have comments after
you've left for vacation, I'll apply those on top as a separate patch.
This patch is really important, and I feel like we're almost there...
Thanks very much for http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/PowerPC_Exittimings
too; that's critical data.
--
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
