[PATCH RFC V5 3/3] kvm: Choose better candidate for directed yield

[Raghavendra K T]

From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Currently, on a large vcpu guests, there is a high probability of
yielding to the same vcpu who had recently done a pause-loop exit or
cpu relax intercepted. Such a yield can lead to the vcpu spinning
again and hence degrade the performance.

The patchset keeps track of the pause loop exit/cpu relax interception
and gives chance to a vcpu which:
 (a) Has not done pause loop exit or cpu relax intercepted at all
     (probably he is preempted lock-holder)
 (b) Was skipped in last iteration because it did pause loop exit or
     cpu relax intercepted, and probably has become eligible now
     (next eligible lock holder)

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
V2 was:
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

 include/linux/kvm_host.h |    5 +++++
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c      |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 34ce296..952427d 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -923,6 +923,11 @@ static inline void kvm_vcpu_set_dy_eligible(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool val)
 {
 }
 
+static inline bool kvm_vcpu_eligible_for_directed_yield(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+	return true;
+}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT */
 #endif
 
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 3d6ffc8..bf9fb97 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1571,6 +1571,39 @@ bool kvm_vcpu_yield_to(struct kvm_vcpu *target)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vcpu_yield_to);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT
+/*
+ * Helper that checks whether a VCPU is eligible for directed yield.
+ * Most eligible candidate to yield is decided by following heuristics:
+ *
+ *  (a) VCPU which has not done pl-exit or cpu relax intercepted recently
+ *  (preempted lock holder), indicated by @in_spin_loop.
+ *  Set at the beiginning and cleared at the end of interception/PLE handler.
+ *
+ *  (b) VCPU which has done pl-exit/ cpu relax intercepted but did not get
+ *  chance last time (mostly it has become eligible now since we have probably
+ *  yielded to lockholder in last iteration. This is done by toggling
+ *  @dy_eligible each time a VCPU checked for eligibility.)
+ *
+ *  Yielding to a recently pl-exited/cpu relax intercepted VCPU before yielding
+ *  to preempted lock-holder could result in wrong VCPU selection and CPU
+ *  burning. Giving priority for a potential lock-holder increases lock
+ *  progress.
+ */
+bool kvm_vcpu_eligible_for_directed_yield(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+	bool eligible;
+
+	eligible = !vcpu->spin_loop.in_spin_loop ||
+			(vcpu->spin_loop.in_spin_loop &&
+			 vcpu->spin_loop.dy_eligible);
+
+	if (vcpu->spin_loop.in_spin_loop)
+		vcpu->spin_loop.dy_eligible = !vcpu->spin_loop.dy_eligible;
+
+	return eligible;
+}
+#endif
 void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
 {
 	struct kvm *kvm = me->kvm;
@@ -1599,6 +1632,8 @@ void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
 				continue;
 			if (waitqueue_active(&vcpu->wq))
 				continue;
+			if (!kvm_vcpu_eligible_for_directed_yield(vcpu))
+				continue;
 			if (kvm_vcpu_yield_to(vcpu)) {
 				kvm->last_boosted_vcpu = i;
 				yielded = 1;
@@ -1607,6 +1642,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
 		}
 	}
 	kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(me, false);
+	kvm_vcpu_set_dy_eligible(me, false);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vcpu_on_spin);
 

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