Paolo, is it ok to apply this version? :) 2017-12-13 9:33 GMT+08:00 Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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. Idea was discussed here: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/20/157 > > 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. > > In addition, thanks for commit 9e52fc2b50d ("x86/mm: Enable RCU based > page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y)") > > Testing on a Xeon Gold 6142 2.6GHz 2 sockets, 32 cores, 64 threads, > so 64 pCPUs, and each VM is 64 vCPUs. > > ebizzy -M > vanilla optimized boost > 1VM 46799 48670 4% > 2VM 23962 42691 78% > 3VM 16152 37539 132% > > Note: The patchset is not rebased against "locking/qspinlock/x86: Avoid > test-and-set when PV_DEDICATED is set" v3 since I can still observe a > little improvement for 64 vCPUs on 64 pCPUs, it is due to the system > is not completely isolated, there are many housekeeping tasks work > sporadically, and vCPUs are preemted some times, I also confirm this > when adding some print to the kvm_flush_tlb_others. After PV_DEDICATED > is merged, we can disable pv tlb flush when not overcommiting if it > is needed. > > v7 -> v8: > * rebase against latest kvm/queue > > v6 -> v7: > * don't check !flushmask > * use arch_initcall() to achieve late allocate percpu mask > > v5 -> v6: > * fix the percpu mask > * rebase against latest kvm/queue > > v4 -> v5: > * flushmask instead of cpumask > > v3 -> v4: > * use READ_ONCE() > * use try_cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg > * add {} to if > * no FLUSH flags to preserve during set_preempted > * "KVM: X86" prefix to patch subject > > v2 -> v3: > * percpu cpumask > > v1 -> v2: > * a new CPUID feature bit > * fix cmpxchg check > * use kvm_vcpu_flush_tlb() to get the statistics right > * just OR the KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED in kvm_steal_time_set_preempted > * add a new bool argument to kvm_x86_ops->tlb_flush > * __cpumask_clear_cpu() instead of cpumask_clear_cpu() > * not put cpumask_t on stack > * rebase the patchset against "locking/qspinlock/x86: Avoid > test-and-set when PV_DEDICATED is set" v3 > > > Wanpeng Li (4): > KVM: X86: Add vCPU running/preempted state > KVM: X86: Add Paravirt TLB Shootdown > KVM: X86: introduce invalidate_gpa argument to tlb flush > KVM: X86: Add flush_on_enter before guest enter > > Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt | 4 +++ > arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +- > arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 5 ++++ > arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 3 ++- > arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 14 +++++------ > arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 21 ++++++++-------- > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 25 +++++++++++------- > 8 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.7.4 >