Re: [RFC PATCH] KVM: x86: Skip request checking branches in vcpu_enter_guest() more effectively

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On 09/24/2012 09:16 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 03:24:47PM +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
>> This is an RFC since I have not done any comparison with the approach
>> using for_each_set_bit() which can be seen in Avi's work.
>> 
>> 	Takuya
>> ---
>> 
>> We did a simple test to see which requests we would get at the same time
>> in vcpu_enter_guest() and got the following numbers:
>> 
>> |...........|...............|........|...............|.|
>>      (N)           (E)         (S)          (ES)      others
>>      22.3%         30.7%       16.0%        29.5%     1.4%
>> 
>> (N) : Nothing
>> (E) : Only KVM_REQ_EVENT
>> (S) : Only KVM_REQ_STEAL_UPDATE
>> (ES): Only KVM_REQ_EVENT and KVM_REQ_STEAL_UPDATE
>> 
>> * Note that the exact numbers can change for other guests.
>> 
> Yes, for guests that do not enable steal time KVM_REQ_STEAL_UPDATE
> should be never set, but currently it is. The patch (not tested) should
> fix this.
> 
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 901ad00..01572f5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -1544,6 +1544,8 @@ static void accumulate_steal_time(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	delta = current->sched_info.run_delay - vcpu->arch.st.last_steal;
>  	vcpu->arch.st.last_steal = current->sched_info.run_delay;
>  	vcpu->arch.st.accum_steal = delta;
> +
> +	kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_STEAL_UPDATE, vcpu);
>  }
>  
>  static void record_steal_time(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> @@ -1673,8 +1675,6 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 data)
>  		accumulate_steal_time(vcpu);
>  		preempt_enable();
>  
> -		kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_STEAL_UPDATE, vcpu);
> -
>  		break;
>  	case MSR_KVM_PV_EOI_EN:
>  		if (kvm_lapic_enable_pv_eoi(vcpu, data))
> @@ -2336,7 +2336,6 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
>  	}
>  
>  	accumulate_steal_time(vcpu);
> -	kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_STEAL_UPDATE, vcpu);
>  }
>  

Even better would be not to account heavyweight exits as steal time.
But we'd need a sched_exit preempt notifier for that.


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