[PATCH] Revert "locking/pvqspinlock: Don't wait if vCPU is preempted"

From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Sun Sep 08 2019 - 21:40:39 EST


From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch reverts commit 75437bb304b20 (locking/pvqspinlock: Don't wait if
vCPU is preempted), we found great regression caused by this commit.

Xeon Skylake box, 2 sockets, 40 cores, 80 threads, three VMs, each is 80 vCPUs.
The score of ebizzy -M can reduce from 13000-14000 records/s to 1700-1800
records/s with this commit.

Host Guest score

vanilla + w/o kvm optimizes vanilla 1700-1800 records/s
vanilla + w/o kvm optimizes vanilla + revert 13000-14000 records/s
vanilla + w/ kvm optimizes vanilla 4500-5000 records/s
vanilla + w/ kvm optimizes vanilla + revert 14000-15500 records/s

Exit from aggressive wait-early mechanism can result in yield premature and
incur extra scheduling latency in over-subscribe scenario.

kvm optimizes:
[1] commit d73eb57b80b (KVM: Boost vCPUs that are delivering interrupts)
[2] commit 266e85a5ec9 (KVM: X86: Boost queue head vCPU to mitigate lock waiter preemption)

Tested-by: loobinliu@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: loobinliu@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 75437bb304b20 (locking/pvqspinlock: Don't wait if vCPU is preempted)
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
index 89bab07..e84d21a 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ pv_wait_early(struct pv_node *prev, int loop)
if ((loop & PV_PREV_CHECK_MASK) != 0)
return false;

- return READ_ONCE(prev->state) != vcpu_running || vcpu_is_preempted(prev->cpu);
+ return READ_ONCE(prev->state) != vcpu_running;
}

/*
--
2.7.4