It was found when running fio sequential write test with a XFS ramdisk on a VM running on a 2-socket x86-64 system, the %CPU times as reported by perf were as follows: 69.75% 0.59% fio [k] down_write 69.15% 0.01% fio [k] call_rwsem_down_write_failed 67.12% 1.12% fio [k] rwsem_down_write_failed 63.48% 52.77% fio [k] osq_lock 9.46% 7.88% fio [k] __raw_callee_save___kvm_vcpu_is_preempt 3.93% 3.93% fio [k] __kvm_vcpu_is_preempted Making vcpu_is_preempted() a callee-save function has a relatively high cost on x86-64 primarily due to at least one more cacheline of data access from the saving and restoring of registers (8 of them) to and from stack as well as one more level of function call. As vcpu_is_preempted() is called within the spinlock, mutex and rwsem slowpaths, there isn't much to gain by making it callee-save. So it is now changed to a normal function call instead. With this patch applied on both bare-metal & KVM guest on a 2-socekt 16-core 32-thread system with 16 parallel jobs (8 on each socket), the aggregrate bandwidth of the fio test on an XFS ramdisk were as follows: Bare Metal KVM Guest I/O Type w/o patch with patch w/o patch with patch -------- --------- ---------- --------- ---------- random read 8650.5 MB/s 8560.9 MB/s 7602.9 MB/s 8196.1 MB/s seq read 9104.8 MB/s 9397.2 MB/s 8293.7 MB/s 8566.9 MB/s random write 1623.8 MB/s 1626.7 MB/s 1590.6 MB/s 1700.7 MB/s seq write 1626.4 MB/s 1624.9 MB/s 1604.8 MB/s 1726.3 MB/s The perf data (on KVM guest) now became: 70.78% 0.58% fio [k] down_write 70.20% 0.01% fio [k] call_rwsem_down_write_failed 69.70% 1.17% fio [k] rwsem_down_write_failed 59.91% 55.42% fio [k] osq_lock 10.14% 10.14% fio [k] __kvm_vcpu_is_preempted On bare metal, the patch doesn't introduce any performance regression. On KVM guest, it produces noticeable performance improvement (up to 7%). Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v1->v2: - Rerun the fio test on a different system on both bare-metal and a KVM guest. Both sockets were utilized in this test. - The commit log was updated with new performance numbers, but the patch wasn't changed. - Drop patch 2. arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 7 ++----- arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c | 6 ++---- arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c | 4 +--- 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h index 864f57b..2515885 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h @@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ static __always_inline void pv_kick(int cpu) static __always_inline bool pv_vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu) { - return PVOP_CALLEE1(bool, pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted, cpu); + return PVOP_CALL1(bool, pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted, cpu); } #endif /* SMP && PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS */ diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h index bb2de45..88dc852 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ struct pv_lock_ops { void (*wait)(u8 *ptr, u8 val); void (*kick)(int cpu); - struct paravirt_callee_save vcpu_is_preempted; + bool (*vcpu_is_preempted)(int cpu); }; /* This contains all the paravirt structures: we get a convenient diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c index 099fcba..eb3753d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c @@ -595,7 +595,6 @@ __visible bool __kvm_vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu) return !!src->preempted; } -PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(__kvm_vcpu_is_preempted); /* * Setup pv_lock_ops to exploit KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT if present. @@ -614,10 +613,8 @@ void __init kvm_spinlock_init(void) pv_lock_ops.wait = kvm_wait; pv_lock_ops.kick = kvm_kick_cpu; - if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME)) { - pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted = - PV_CALLEE_SAVE(__kvm_vcpu_is_preempted); - } + if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME)) + pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted = __kvm_vcpu_is_preempted; } #endif /* CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS */ diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c index 6259327..da050bc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c @@ -24,12 +24,10 @@ __visible bool __native_vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu) { return false; } -PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(__native_vcpu_is_preempted); bool pv_is_native_vcpu_is_preempted(void) { - return pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted.func == - __raw_callee_save___native_vcpu_is_preempted; + return pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted == __native_vcpu_is_preempted; } struct pv_lock_ops pv_lock_ops = { @@ -38,7 +36,7 @@ struct pv_lock_ops pv_lock_ops = { .queued_spin_unlock = PV_CALLEE_SAVE(__native_queued_spin_unlock), .wait = paravirt_nop, .kick = paravirt_nop, - .vcpu_is_preempted = PV_CALLEE_SAVE(__native_vcpu_is_preempted), + .vcpu_is_preempted = __native_vcpu_is_preempted, #endif /* SMP */ }; EXPORT_SYMBOL(pv_lock_ops); diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c index 25a7c43..c85bb8f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c @@ -114,8 +114,6 @@ void xen_uninit_lock_cpu(int cpu) per_cpu(irq_name, cpu) = NULL; } -PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(xen_vcpu_stolen); - /* * Our init of PV spinlocks is split in two init functions due to us * using paravirt patching and jump labels patching and having to do @@ -138,7 +136,7 @@ void __init xen_init_spinlocks(void) pv_lock_ops.queued_spin_unlock = PV_CALLEE_SAVE(__pv_queued_spin_unlock); pv_lock_ops.wait = xen_qlock_wait; pv_lock_ops.kick = xen_qlock_kick; - pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted = PV_CALLEE_SAVE(xen_vcpu_stolen); + pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted = xen_vcpu_stolen; } static __init int xen_parse_nopvspin(char *arg) -- 1.8.3.1 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization