Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] KVM: Dynamic Halt-Polling
From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Mon Aug 31 2015 - 03:44:47 EST
On 8/30/15 6:26 AM, Peter Kieser wrote:
Thanks, Wanpeng. Applied this to Linux 3.18 and seeing much higher CPU
usage (200%) for qemu 2.4.0 process on a Windows 10 x64 guest. qemu
parameters:
Interesting. I test this against latest kvm tree and stable qemu 2.0.0,
4 vCPUs on pCPU0(other pCPUs are offline to easy observe %C0 and to
avoid vCPUs schedule overhead influence). I just ignore the fluctuation
and post the most common result of %C0 against the Windows 10 x86 guest.
+-----------------+----------------+-----------------------+
| | | |
| w/o halt-poll | w/ halt-poll | dynamic(v4) halt-poll |
+-----------------+----------------+-----------------------+
| | | |
| ~2.1% | ~3.0% | ~2.4% |
+-----------------+----------------+-----------------------+
Regards,
Wanpeng Li
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -name arwan-20150704 -S -machine
pc-q35-2.2,accel=kvm,usb=off -cpu
Haswell,hv_time,hv_relaxed,hv_vapic,hv_spinlocks=0x1000 -m 8192
-realtime mlock=off -smp 4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid
7c2fc02d-2798-4fc9-ad04-db5f1af92723 -no-user-config -nodefaults
-chardev
socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/arwan-20150704.monitor,server,nowait
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime
-no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device
i82801b11-bridge,id=pci.1,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1e -device
pci-bridge,chassis_nr=2,id=pci.2,bus=pci.1,addr=0x1 -device
nec-usb-xhci,id=usb1,bus=pci.2,addr=0x4 -device
virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.2,addr=0x5 -drive
file=/dev/mapper/crypt-arwan-20150704,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,cache=none,discard=unmap,aio=native
-device
virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.2,addr=0x3,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=2
-drive
file=/usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-sata0-0-2,readonly=on,format=raw
-device
ide-cd,bus=ide.2,drive=drive-sata0-0-2,id=sata0-0-2,bootindex=1
-netdev tap,fds=31:32:33:34,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfds=35:36:37:38
-device
virtio-net-pci,guest_csum=off,guest_tso4=off,guest_tso6=off,mq=on,vectors=10,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:f3:6b:c4,bus=pci.2,addr=0x2
-chardev
socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/arwan-20150704.org.qemu.guest_agent.0,server,nowait
-device
virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0
-chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel1,name=vdagent -device
virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=2,chardev=charchannel1,id=channel1,name=com.redhat.spice.0
-vnc 127.0.0.1:4 -device
qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,vgamem_mb=16,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1
-device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.2,addr=0x1 -msg
timestamp=on
I revert patch, qemu shows 17% CPU usage on host. Thoughts?
-Peter
On 2015-08-29 3:21 PM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
Hi Peter,
On 8/30/15 5:18 AM, Peter Kieser wrote:
Hi Wanpeng,
Do I need to set any module parameters to use your patch, or should
halt_poll_ns automatically tune with just your patch series applied?
You don't need any module parameters.
Regards,
Wanpeng Li
Thanks.
On 2015-08-27 2:47 AM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
v3 -> v4:
* bring back grow vcpu->halt_poll_ns when interrupt arrives and
shrinks
when idle VCPU is detected
v2 -> v3:
* grow/shrink vcpu->halt_poll_ns by *halt_poll_ns_grow or
/halt_poll_ns_shrink
* drop the macros and hard coding the numbers in the param
definitions
* update the comments "5-7 us"
* remove halt_poll_ns_max and use halt_poll_ns as the max
halt_poll_ns time,
vcpu->halt_poll_ns start at zero
* drop the wrappers
* move the grow/shrink logic before "out:" w/ "if (waited)"
v1 -> v2:
* change kvm_vcpu_block to read halt_poll_ns from the vcpu
instead of
the module parameter
* use the shrink/grow matrix which is suggested by David
* set halt_poll_ns_max to 2ms
There is a downside of halt_poll_ns since poll is still happen for
idle
VCPU which can waste cpu usage. This patchset add the ability to
adjust
halt_poll_ns dynamically, grows halt_poll_ns if an interrupt
arrives and
shrinks halt_poll_ns when idle VCPU is detected.
There are two new kernel parameters for changing the halt_poll_ns:
halt_poll_ns_grow and halt_poll_ns_shrink.
Test w/ high cpu overcommit ratio, pin vCPUs, and the halt_poll_ns of
halt-poll is the default 500000ns, the max halt_poll_ns of dynamic
halt-poll is 2ms. Then watch the %C0 in the dump of Powertop tool.
The test method is almost from David.
+-----------------+----------------+-------------------+
| | | |
| w/o halt-poll | w/ halt-poll | dynamic halt-poll |
+-----------------+----------------+-------------------+
| | | |
| ~0.9% | ~1.8% | ~1.2% |
+-----------------+----------------+-------------------+
The always halt-poll
will increase ~0.9% cpu usage for idle vCPUs and the
dynamic halt-poll drop it to ~0.3% which means that reduce the 67%
overhead
introduced by always halt-poll.
Wanpeng Li (3):
KVM: make halt_poll_ns per-VCPU
KVM: dynamic halt_poll_ns adjustment
KVM: trace kvm_halt_poll_ns grow/shrink
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 1 +
include/trace/events/kvm.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 50
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
3 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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