This patchset enables the cpuidle-haltpoll driver and its namesake
governor on arm64. This is specifically interesting for KVM guests by
reducing the IPC latencies.
Comparing idle switching latencies on an arm64 KVM guest with
perf bench sched pipe:
usecs/op %stdev
no haltpoll (baseline) 13.48 +- 5.19%
with haltpoll 6.84 +- 22.07%
No change in performance for a similar test on x86:
usecs/op %stdev
haltpoll w/ cpu_relax() (baseline) 4.75 +- 1.76%
haltpoll w/ smp_cond_load_relaxed() 4.78 +- 2.31%
Both sets of tests were on otherwise idle systems with guest VCPUs
pinned to specific PCPUs. One reason for the higher stdev on arm64
is that trapping of the WFE instruction by the host KVM is contingent
on the number of tasks on the runqueue.
The patch series is organized in four parts:
- patches 1, 2 mangle the config option ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX, renaming
and moving it from x86 to common architectural code.
- next, patches 3-5, reorganize the haltpoll selection and init logic
to allow architecture code to select it.
- patch 6, reorganizes the poll_idle() loop, switching from using
cpu_relax() directly to smp_cond_load_relaxed().
- and finally, patches 7-9, add the bits for arm64 support.
What is still missing: this series largely completes the haltpoll side
of functionality for arm64. There are, however, a few related areas
that still need to be threshed out:
- WFET support: WFE on arm64 does not guarantee that poll_idle()
would terminate in halt_poll_ns. Using WFET would address this.
- KVM_NO_POLL support on arm64
- KVM TWED support on arm64: allow the host to limit time spent in
WFE.
Changelog:
v5:
- rework the poll_idle() loop around smp_cond_load_relaxed() (review
comment from Tomohiro Misono.)
- also rework selection of cpuidle-haltpoll. Now selected based
on the architectural selection of ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL.
- arch_haltpoll_supported() (renamed from arch_haltpoll_want()) on
arm64 now depends on the event-stream being enabled.
- limit POLL_IDLE_RELAX_COUNT on arm64 (review comment from Haris Okanovic)
- ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX is now renamed to ARCH_HAS_OPTIMIZED_POLL.
v4 changes from v3:
- change 7/8 per Rafael input: drop the parens and use ret for the final check
- add 8/8 which renames the guard for building poll_state
v3 changes from v2:
- fix 1/7 per Petr Mladek - remove ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX from arch/x86/Kconfig
- add Ack-by from Rafael Wysocki on 2/7
v2 changes from v1:
- added patch 7 where we change cpu_relax with smp_cond_load_relaxed per PeterZ
(this improves by 50% at least the CPU cycles consumed in the tests above:
10,716,881,137 now vs 14,503,014,257 before)
- removed the ifdef from patch 1 per RafaelW
Ankur Arora (4):
cpuidle: rename ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX to ARCH_HAS_OPTIMIZED_POLL
cpuidle-haltpoll: condition on ARCH_CPUIDLE_HALTPOLL
arm64: support cpuidle-haltpoll
cpuidle/poll_state: limit POLL_IDLE_RELAX_COUNT on arm64
Joao Martins (4):
Kconfig: move ARCH_HAS_OPTIMIZED_POLL to arch/Kconfig
cpuidle-haltpoll: define arch_haltpoll_supported()
governors/haltpoll: drop kvm_para_available() check
arm64: define TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG
Mihai Carabas (1):
cpuidle/poll_state: poll via smp_cond_load_relaxed()
arch/Kconfig | 3 +++
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle_haltpoll.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 ++
arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 +---
arch/x86/include/asm/cpuidle_haltpoll.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 10 ++++++++++
drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 4 ++--
drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig | 5 ++---
drivers/cpuidle/Makefile | 2 +-
drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-haltpoll.c | 9 ++-------
drivers/cpuidle/governors/haltpoll.c | 6 +-----
drivers/cpuidle/poll_state.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
drivers/idle/Kconfig | 1 +
include/linux/cpuidle.h | 2 +-
include/linux/cpuidle_haltpoll.h | 5 +++++
16 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle_haltpoll.h
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