[PATCH v2 4/6] KVM: VMX: dynamise PLE window

From: Radim KrÄmÃÅ
Date: Wed Aug 20 2014 - 16:54:22 EST


Window is increased on every PLE exit and decreased on every sched_in.
The idea is that we don't want to PLE exit if there is no preemption
going on.
We do this with sched_in() because it does not hold rq lock.

There are two new kernel parameters for changing the window:
ple_window_grow and ple_window_shrink
ple_window_grow affects the window on PLE exit and ple_window_shrink
does it on sched_in; depending on their value, the window is modifier
like this: (ple_window is kvm_intel's global)

ple_window_shrink/ |
ple_window_grow | PLE exit | sched_in
-------------------+--------------------+---------------------
< 1 | = ple_window | = ple_window
< ple_window | *= ple_window_grow | /= ple_window_shrink
otherwise | += ple_window_grow | -= ple_window_shrink

A third new parameter, ple_window_max, controls a maximal ple_window.
A minimum equals to ple_window.

Signed-off-by: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 78 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 18e0e52..e63d7ac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -125,14 +125,32 @@ module_param(nested, bool, S_IRUGO);
* Time is measured based on a counter that runs at the same rate as the TSC,
* refer SDM volume 3b section 21.6.13 & 22.1.3.
*/
-#define KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_GAP 128
-#define KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_WINDOW 4096
+#define KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_GAP 128
+#define KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_WINDOW 4096
+#define KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_WINDOW_GROW 2
+#define KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_WINDOW_SHRINK 0
+#define KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_WINDOW_MAX \
+ INT_MAX / KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_WINDOW_GROW
+
static int ple_gap = KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_GAP;
module_param(ple_gap, int, S_IRUGO);

static int ple_window = KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_WINDOW;
module_param(ple_window, int, S_IRUGO);

+/* Default doubles per-vcpu window every exit. */
+static int ple_window_grow = KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_WINDOW_GROW;
+module_param(ple_window_grow, int, S_IRUGO);
+
+/* Default resets per-vcpu window every exit to ple_window. */
+static int ple_window_shrink = KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_WINDOW_SHRINK;
+module_param(ple_window_shrink, int, S_IRUGO);
+
+/* Default is to compute the maximum so we can never overflow. */
+static int ple_window_actual_max = KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_WINDOW_MAX;
+static int ple_window_max = KVM_VMX_DEFAULT_PLE_WINDOW_MAX;
+module_param(ple_window_max, int, S_IRUGO);
+
extern const ulong vmx_return;

#define NR_AUTOLOAD_MSRS 8
@@ -5679,12 +5697,66 @@ out:
return ret;
}

+static int __grow_ple_window(int val)
+{
+ if (ple_window_grow < 1)
+ return ple_window;
+
+ val = min(val, ple_window_actual_max);
+
+ if (ple_window_grow < ple_window)
+ val *= ple_window_grow;
+ else
+ val += ple_window_grow;
+
+ return val;
+}
+
+static int __shrink_ple_window(int val, int shrinker, int minimum)
+{
+ if (shrinker < 1)
+ return ple_window;
+
+ if (shrinker < ple_window)
+ val /= shrinker;
+ else
+ val -= shrinker;
+
+ return max(val, minimum);
+}
+
+static void modify_ple_window(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int grow)
+{
+ struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
+ int new;
+
+ if (grow)
+ new = __grow_ple_window(vmx->ple_window);
+ else
+ new = __shrink_ple_window(vmx->ple_window, ple_window_shrink,
+ ple_window);
+
+ vmx->ple_window = max(new, ple_window);
+}
+#define grow_ple_window(vcpu) modify_ple_window(vcpu, 1)
+#define shrink_ple_window(vcpu) modify_ple_window(vcpu, 0)
+
+static void update_ple_window_actual_max(void)
+{
+ ple_window_actual_max =
+ __shrink_ple_window(max(ple_window_max, ple_window),
+ ple_window_grow, INT_MIN);
+}
+
/*
* Indicate a busy-waiting vcpu in spinlock. We do not enable the PAUSE
* exiting, so only get here on cpu with PAUSE-Loop-Exiting.
*/
static int handle_pause(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
+ if (ple_gap)
+ grow_ple_window(vcpu);
+
skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
kvm_vcpu_on_spin(vcpu);

@@ -8854,6 +8926,8 @@ static int vmx_check_intercept(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,

void vmx_sched_in(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
{
+ if (ple_gap)
+ shrink_ple_window(vcpu);
}

static struct kvm_x86_ops vmx_x86_ops = {
@@ -9077,6 +9151,8 @@ static int __init vmx_init(void)
} else
kvm_disable_tdp();

+ update_ple_window_actual_max();
+
return 0;

out7:
--
2.0.4

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