From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Remote flushing api's does a busy wait which is fine in bare-metal
scenario. But with-in the guest, the vcpus might have been pre-empted
or blocked. In this scenario, the initator vcpu would end up
busy-waiting for a long amount of time.
This patch set implements para-virt flush tlbs making sure that it
does not wait for vcpus that are sleeping. And all the sleeping vcpus
flush the tlb on guest enter.
The best result is achieved when we're overcommiting the host by running
multiple vCPUs on each pCPU. In this case PV tlb flush avoids touching
vCPUs which are not scheduled and avoid the wait on the main CPU.
Test on a Haswell i7 desktop 4 cores (2HT), so 8 pCPUs, running ebizzy in
one linux guest.
ebizzy -M
vanilla optimized boost
8 vCPUs 10152 10083 -0.68%
16 vCPUs 1224 4866 297.5%
24 vCPUs 1109 3871 249%
32 vCPUs 1025 3375 229.3%
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
index ff23ce9..189e354 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct kvm_steal_time {
#define KVM_VCPU_NOT_PREEMPTED (0 << 0)
#define KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED (1 << 0)
+#define KVM_VCPU_SHOULD_FLUSH (1 << 1)
#define KVM_CLOCK_PAIRING_WALLCLOCK 0
struct kvm_clock_pairing {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index 1b1b641..2e2f3ae 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -465,6 +465,33 @@ static void __init kvm_apf_trap_init(void)
update_intr_gate(X86_TRAP_PF, async_page_fault);
}
+static void kvm_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
+ const struct flush_tlb_info *info)
+{
+ u8 state;
+ int cpu;
+ struct kvm_steal_time *src;
+ cpumask_t flushmask;
+
+
+ cpumask_copy(&flushmask, cpumask);
+ /*
+ * We have to call flush only on online vCPUs. And
+ * queue flush_on_enter for pre-empted vCPUs
+ */
+ for_each_cpu(cpu, cpumask) {
+ src = &per_cpu(steal_time, cpu);
+ state = src->preempted;
+ if ((state & KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED)) {
+ if (cmpxchg(&src->preempted, state, state | 1 <<
+ KVM_VCPU_SHOULD_FLUSH))
+ cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &flushmask);
+ }
+ }
+
+ native_flush_tlb_others(&flushmask, info);
+}
+
void __init kvm_guest_init(void)
{
int i;
@@ -484,6 +511,8 @@ void __init kvm_guest_init(void)
pv_time_ops.steal_clock = kvm_steal_clock;
}
+ pv_mmu_ops.flush_tlb_others = kvm_flush_tlb_others;
+
if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI))
apic_set_eoi_write(kvm_guest_apic_eoi_write);
--
2.7.4
