On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 21:04:38 +0000, Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This patch is to reduce the performance degradation of guest workload during > dirty logging on ARM64. A fast path is added to handle permission relaxation > during dirty logging. The MMU lock is replaced with rwlock, by which all > permision relaxations on leaf pte can be performed under the read lock. This > greatly reduces the MMU lock contention during dirty logging. With this > solution, the source guest workload performance degradation can be improved > by more than 60%. > > Problem: > * A Google internal live migration test shows that the source guest workload > performance has >99% degradation for about 105 seconds, >50% degradation > for about 112 seconds, >10% degradation for about 112 seconds on ARM64. > This shows that most of the time, the guest workload degradtion is above > 99%, which obviously needs some improvement compared to the test result > on x86 (>99% for 6s, >50% for 9s, >10% for 27s). > * Tested H/W: Ampere Altra 3GHz, #CPU: 64, #Mem: 256GB > * VM spec: #vCPU: 48, #Mem/vCPU: 4GB What are the host and guest page sizes? > > Analysis: > * We enabled CONFIG_LOCK_STAT in kernel and used dirty_log_perf_test to get > the number of contentions of MMU lock and the "dirty memory time" on > various VM spec. > By using test command > ./dirty_log_perf_test -b 2G -m 2 -i 2 -s anonymous_hugetlb_2mb -v [#vCPU] How is this test representative of the internal live migration test you mention above? '-m 2' indicates a mode that varies depending on the HW and revision of the test (I just added a bunch of supported modes). Which one is it? > Below are the results: > +-------+------------------------+-----------------------+ > | #vCPU | dirty memory time (ms) | number of contentions | > +-------+------------------------+-----------------------+ > | 1 | 926 | 0 | > +-------+------------------------+-----------------------+ > | 2 | 1189 | 4732558 | > +-------+------------------------+-----------------------+ > | 4 | 2503 | 11527185 | > +-------+------------------------+-----------------------+ > | 8 | 5069 | 24881677 | > +-------+------------------------+-----------------------+ > | 16 | 10340 | 50347956 | > +-------+------------------------+-----------------------+ > | 32 | 20351 | 100605720 | > +-------+------------------------+-----------------------+ > | 64 | 40994 | 201442478 | > +-------+------------------------+-----------------------+ > > * From the test results above, the "dirty memory time" and the number of > MMU lock contention scale with the number of vCPUs. That means all the > dirty memory operations from all vCPU threads have been serialized by > the MMU lock. Further analysis also shows that the permission relaxation > during dirty logging is where vCPU threads get serialized. > > Solution: > * On ARM64, there is no mechanism as PML (Page Modification Logging) and > the dirty-bit solution for dirty logging is much complicated compared to > the write-protection solution. The straight way to reduce the guest > performance degradation is to enhance the concurrency for the permission > fault path during dirty logging. > * In this patch, we only put leaf PTE permission relaxation for dirty > logging under read lock, all others would go under write lock. > Below are the results based on the solution: > +-------+------------------------+ > | #vCPU | dirty memory time (ms) | > +-------+------------------------+ > | 1 | 803 | > +-------+------------------------+ > | 2 | 843 | > +-------+------------------------+ > | 4 | 942 | > +-------+------------------------+ > | 8 | 1458 | > +-------+------------------------+ > | 16 | 2853 | > +-------+------------------------+ > | 32 | 5886 | > +-------+------------------------+ > | 64 | 12190 | > +-------+------------------------+ > All "dirty memory time" have been reduced by more than 60% when the > number of vCPU grows. How does that translate to the original problem statement with your live migration test? Thanks, M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
