On 04/07/2014 02:14 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
I tested the v7,v8 of qspinlock with unfair config on kvm guest.
I was curious about unfair locks performance in undercommit cases.
(overcommit case is expected to perform well)
But I am seeing hang in overcommit cases. Gdb showed that many vcpus
are halted and there was no progress. Suspecting the problem /race with
halting, I removed the halt() part of kvm_hibernate(). I am yet to
take a closer look at the code on halt() related changes.
It seems like there may still be race conditions where the current code
is not handling correctly. I will look into that to see where the
problem is. BTW, what test do you use to produce the hang condition?
Patch series with that change gave around 20% improvement for dbench
2x and 30% improvement for ebizzy 2x cases. (1x has no significant
loss/gain).
What is the baseline for the performance improvement? Is it without the
unfair lock and PV qspinlock?
-Longman
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