Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] KVM: Dynamic Halt-Polling

[David Matlack]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/2/15 7:24 AM, David Matlack wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
>>>
>>> Why this can happen?
>>
>> Ah, probably because I'm missing 9c8fd1ba220 (KVM: x86: optimize delivery
>> of TSC deadline timer interrupt). I don't think the edge case exists in
>> the latest kernel.
>
>
> Yeah, hope we both(include Peter Kieser) can test against latest kvm tree to
> avoid confusing. The reason to introduce the adaptive halt-polling toggle is
> to handle the "edge case" as you mentioned above. So I think we can make
> more efforts improve v4 instead. I will improve v4 to handle short halt
> today. ;-)

That's fine. It's just easier to convey my ideas with a patch. FYI the
other reason for the toggle patch was to add the timer for kvm_vcpu_block,
which I think is the only way to get dynamic halt-polling right. Feel free
to work on top of v4!

>
<snip>
>>>
>>> Did you test your patch against a windows guest?
>>
>> I have not. I tested against a 250HZ linux guest to check how it performs
>> against a ticking guest. Presumably, windows should be the same, but at a
>> higher tick rate. Do you have a test for Windows?
>
>
> I just test the idle vCPUs usage.
>
>
> V4 for windows 10:
>
> +-----------------+----------------+-----------------------+
> |                                 | |
> |
> |  w/o halt-poll           |  w/ halt-poll          | dynamic(v4) halt-poll
> |
> +-----------------+----------------+-----------------------+
> |                                 | |
> |
> |    ~2.1%                    |    ~3.0%                  | ~2.4%
> |
> +-----------------+----------------+-----------------------+

I'm not seeing the same results with v4. With a 250HZ ticking guest
I see 15% c0 with halt_poll_ns=2000000 and 1.27% with halt_poll_ns=0.
Are you running one vcpu per pcpu?

(The reason for the overhead: the new tracepoint shows each vcpu is
alternating between 0 and 500 us.)

>
> V4  for linux guest:
>
> +-----------------+----------------+-------------------+
> |                 |                |                   |
> |  w/o halt-poll  |  w/ halt-poll  | dynamic halt-poll |
> +-----------------+----------------+-------------------+
> |                 |                |                   |
> |    ~0.9%        |    ~1.8%       |     ~1.2%         |
> +-----------------+----------------+-------------------+
>
>
> Regards,
> Wanpeng Li
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