This patchset adds linear and logarithmic histogram stats support and extend
some halt polling stats with histogram.
Histogram stats is very useful when we need to know the distribution of some
latencies or any other stuff like used memory size, huge page size, etc.
Below is a snapshot for three logarithmic histogram stats added in this
patchset. halt_poll_success_hist shows the distribution of wait time before a
success polling. halt_poll_fail_hist shows the distribution of wait time before
a fail polling. halt_wait_hist shows the distribution of wait time of a VCPU
spending on wait after it is halted. The halt polling parameters is halt_poll_ns
= 500000, halt_poll_ns_grow = 2, halt_poll_ns_grow_start = 10000,
halt_poll_ns_shrink = 2;
>From the snapshot, not only we can get an intuitive overview of those latencies,
but also we can tune the polling parameters based on this; For example, it shows
that about 80% of successful polling is less than 132000 nanoseconds from
halt_poll_success_hist, then it might be a good option to set halt_poll_ns as
132000 instead of 500000.
halt_poll_success_hist:
Range Bucket Value Percent Cumulative Percent
[0, 1) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[1, 2) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[2, 4) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[4, 8) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[8, 16) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[16, 32) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[32, 64) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[64, 128) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[128, 256) 3 0.093% 0.093%
[256, 512) 21 0.650% 0.743%
[512, 1024) 43 1.330% 2.073%
[1024, 2048) 279 8.632% 10.705%
[2048, 4096) 253 7.828% 18.533%
[4096, 8192) 595 18.410% 36.943%
[8192, 16384) 274 8.478% 45.421%
[16384, 32768) 351 10.860% 56.281%
[32768, 65536) 343 10.613% 66.894%
[65536, 131072) 421 13.026% 79.920%
[131072, 262144) 459 14.202% 94.121%
[262144, 524288) 190 5.879% 100.000%
halt_poll_fail_hist:
Range Bucket Value Percent Cumulative Percent
[0, 1) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[1, 2) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[2, 4) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[4, 8) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[8, 16) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[16, 32) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[32, 64) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[64, 128) 21 0.529% 0.529%
[128, 256) 398 10.020% 10.549%
[256, 512) 613 15.433% 25.982%
[512, 1024) 437 11.002% 36.984%
[1024, 2048) 264 6.647% 43.630%
[2048, 4096) 302 7.603% 51.234%
[4096, 8192) 350 8.812% 60.045%
[8192, 16384) 488 12.286% 72.331%
[16384, 32768) 258 6.495% 78.827%
[32768, 65536) 227 5.715% 84.542%
[65536, 131072) 232 5.841% 90.383%
[131072, 262144) 246 6.193% 96.576%
[262144, 524288) 136 3.424% 100.000%
halt_wait_hist:
Range Bucket Value Percent Cumulative Percent
[0, 1) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[1, 2) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[2, 4) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[4, 8) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[8, 16) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[16, 32) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[32, 64) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[64, 128) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[128, 256) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[256, 512) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[512, 1024) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[1024, 2048) 0 0.000% 0.000%
[2048, 4096) 7 0.127% 0.127%
[4096, 8192) 37 0.671% 0.798%
[8192, 16384) 69 1.251% 2.049%
[16384, 32768) 94 1.704% 3.753%
[32768, 65536) 150 2.719% 6.472%
[65536, 131072) 233 4.224% 10.696%
[131072, 262144) 276 5.004% 15.700%
[262144, 524288) 236 4.278% 19.978%
[524288, 1.04858e+06) 176 3.191% 23.169%
[1.04858e+06, 2.09715e+06) 94 16.207% 39.376%
[2.09715e+06, 4.1943e+06) 1667 30.221% 69.598%
[4.1943e+06, 8.38861e+06) 825 14.956% 84.554%
[8.38861e+06, 1.67772e+07) 111 2.012% 86.566%
[1.67772e+07, 3.35544e+07) 76 1.378% 87.944%
[3.35544e+07, 6.71089e+07) 65 1.178% 89.123%
[6.71089e+07, 1.34218e+08) 161 2.919% 92.041%
[1.34218e+08, 2.68435e+08) 250 4.532% 96.574%
[2.68435e+08, 5.36871e+08) 188 3.408% 99.982%
[5.36871e+08, 1.07374e+09) 1 0.018% 100.000%
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* v1 -> v2
- Rebase to kvm/queue, commit 1889228d80fe
(KVM: selftests: smm_test: Test SMM enter from L2)
- Break some changes to separate commits
- Fix u64 division issue Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
- Address a bunch of comments by David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20210706180350.2838127-1-jingzhangos@xxxxxxxxxx
---
Jing Zhang (6):
KVM: stats: Add capability description for KVM binary stats
KVM: stats: Support linear and logarithmic histogram statistics
KVM: stats: Update doc for histogram statistics
KVM: selftests: Add checks for histogram stats bucket_size field
KVM: stats: Add halt_wait_ns stats for all architectures
KVM: stats: Add halt polling related histogram stats
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 36 ++++++++--
arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c | 4 --
arch/mips/kvm/mips.c | 4 --
arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 -
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c | 5 --
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 18 ++++-
arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c | 5 --
arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 4 --
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 --
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 67 ++++++++++++++-----
include/linux/kvm_types.h | 21 ++++++
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 11 +--
.../selftests/kvm/kvm_binary_stats_test.c | 12 ++++
virt/kvm/binary_stats.c | 32 +++++++++
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 16 +++++
15 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
base-commit: 1889228d80fe3060d3b0bcb6d0f968ab33cce0df
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2.32.0.402.g57bb445576-goog
