RE: [PATCH v2] Fix DEC truncation for greater than 0xffff_ffff/1000

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bhushan Bharat-R65777 
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:41 PM
> To: Liu Yu-B13201; agraf@xxxxxxx
> Cc: kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; bharatb.yadav@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] Fix DEC truncation for greater than 
> 0xffff_ffff/1000
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Liu Yu-B13201
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:28 PM
> > To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777; agraf@xxxxxxx
> > Cc: kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; bharatb.yadav@xxxxxxxxx; 
> Bhushan Bharat-
> > R65777
> > Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] Fix DEC truncation for greater than
> > 0xffff_ffff/1000
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: kvm-ppc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:kvm-ppc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bharat Bhushan
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12:16 PM
> > > To: agraf@xxxxxxx
> > > Cc: kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; bharatb.yadav@xxxxxxxxx; Bhushan
> > > Bharat-R65777
> > > Subject: [PATCH v2] Fix DEC truncation for greater than
> > > 0xffff_ffff/1000
> > >
> > > kvmppc_emulate_dec() uses dec_nsec of type unsigned long and does
> > > below calculation:
> > >
> > >         dec_nsec = vcpu->arch.dec;
> > >         dec_nsec *= 1000;
> > > This will truncate if DEC value "vcpu->arch.dec" is greater than
> > > 0xffff_ffff/1000.
> > > For example : For tb_ticks_per_usec = 4a, we can not set 
> decrementer
> > > more than ~58ms.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c |   12 +++++++-----
> > >  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c 
> b/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
> > > index 8af3bad..e7f3da4 100644
> > > --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
> > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
> > > @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ static bool kvmppc_dec_enabled(struct kvm_vcpu
> > > *vcpu)  void kvmppc_emulate_dec(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)  {
> > >  	unsigned long dec_nsec;
> > > +	unsigned long long dec_time;
> > >
> > >  	pr_debug("mtDEC: %x\n", vcpu->arch.dec);
> > >  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
> > > @@ -103,11 +104,12 @@ void kvmppc_emulate_dec(struct 
> kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > >  		 * host ticks. */
> > >
> > >  		hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&vcpu->arch.dec_timer);
> > > -		dec_nsec = vcpu->arch.dec;
> > > -		dec_nsec *= 1000;
> > > -		dec_nsec /= tb_ticks_per_usec;
> > > -		hrtimer_start(&vcpu->arch.dec_timer,
> > > ktime_set(0, dec_nsec),
> > > -			      HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
> > > +		dec_time = vcpu->arch.dec;
> > > +		dec_time *= 1000;
> > > +		do_div(dec_time, tb_ticks_per_usec);
> > > +		dec_nsec = do_div(dec_time, NSEC_PER_SEC);
> > > +		hrtimer_start(&vcpu->arch.dec_timer,
> > > +			ktime_set(dec_time, dec_nsec),
> > > HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
> > >  		vcpu->arch.dec_jiffies = get_tb();
> > >  	} else {
> > >  		hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&vcpu->arch.dec_timer);
> > > --
> > > 1.7.0.4
> > >
> > 
> > How does this impact performance?
> > 64bits multiplication and division looks slow.
> > 
> 
> I tried running below test as guest, with and without this 
> patch and tried to find latency added by this patch. Also I 
> run this for a list of timeouts (1, 2 , 4, 8, 16, 32ms) one by one.
> 
> - get TB (say a).
> - set decrementer in auto reload mode.
> - wait for 1000 timebase interrupts.
> - Get timebase delta (b = get_tb - a).
> 
> 		(b1	-   b2)  <=> b1 with this patch and b2 
> without this patch. And roughly I found any impact. For example:
> For 1ms =  ( 48a19d8 -  48a1459)  = 0x57f  = .0018%  
> For 32ms = (90fdfa23 - 90fdfe79)  = -(0x456)

Doesn't (b1 - b2) mean difference of the last one interrupt between have patch and havenot patch?
The time of previous 999 interrupts is hidden in the cpu idle time.

Thanks,
Yu

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