On 18.06.14 09:15, Mihai Caraman wrote:
On vcpu schedule, the condition checked for tlb pollution is too loose.
The tlb entries of a vcpu become polluted (vs stale) only when a different
vcpu within the same logical partition runs in-between. Optimize the tlb
invalidation condition keeping last_vcpu per logical partition id.
With the new invalidation condition, a guest shows 4% performance improvement
on P5020DS while running a memory stress application with the cpu oversubscribed,
the other guest running a cpu intensive workload.
Guest - old invalidation condition
real 3.89
user 3.87
sys 0.01
Guest - enhanced invalidation condition
real 3.75
user 3.73
sys 0.01
Host
real 3.70
user 1.85
sys 0.00
The memory stress application accesses 4KB pages backed by 75% of available
TLB0 entries:
char foo[ENTRIES][4096] __attribute__ ((aligned (4096)));
int main()
{
char bar;
int i, j;
for (i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++)
for (j = 0; j < ENTRIES; j++)
bar = foo[j][0];
return 0;
}
Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks, applied to kvm-ppc-queue.
Alex
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