Re: [PATCH RESEND] KVM: Boosting vCPUs that are delivering interrupts

[Wanpeng Li]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 15:15, Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Inspired by commit 9cac38dd5d (KVM/s390: Set preempted flag during vcpu wakeup
> and interrupt delivery), except the lock holder, we want to also boost vCPUs
> that are delivering interrupts. Actually most smp_call_function_many calls are
> synchronous ipi calls, the ipi target vCPUs are also good yield candidates.
> This patch sets preempted flag during wakeup and interrupt delivery time.
>

I forgot to mention that I disable pv tlb shootdown during testing,
function call interrupts are not easy to be triggered directly by
userspace workloads, in addition, distros' guest kernel w/o pv tlb
shootdown support can also get benefit in both tlb shootdown and
function call interrupts scenarios.

> Testing on 80 HT 2 socket Xeon Skylake server, with 80 vCPUs VM 80GB RAM:
> ebizzy -M
>
>             vanilla     boosting    improved
> 1VM          23000       21232        -9%
> 2VM           2800        8000       180%
> 3VM           1800        3100        72%
>
> Testing on my Haswell desktop 8 HT, with 8 vCPUs VM 8GB RAM, two VMs,
> one running ebizzy -M, the other running 'stress --cpu 2':
>
> w/ boosting + w/o pv sched yield(vanilla)
>
>             vanilla     boosting   improved
>               1570         4000       55%
>
> w/ boosting + w/ pv sched yield(vanilla)
>
>             vanilla     boosting   improved
>               1844         5157       79%
>
> w/o boosting, perf top in VM:
>
>  72.33%  [kernel]       [k] smp_call_function_many
>   4.22%  [kernel]       [k] call_function_i
>   3.71%  [kernel]       [k] async_page_fault
>
> w/ boosting, perf top in VM:
>
>  38.43%  [kernel]       [k] smp_call_function_many
>   6.31%  [kernel]       [k] async_page_fault
>   6.13%  libc-2.23.so   [.] __memcpy_avx_unaligned
>   4.88%  [kernel]       [k] call_function_interrupt
>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index b4ab59d..2c46705 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -2404,8 +2404,10 @@ void kvm_vcpu_kick(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>         int me;
>         int cpu = vcpu->cpu;
>
> -       if (kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu))
> +       if (kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu)) {
> +               vcpu->preempted = true;
>                 return;
> +       }
>
>         me = get_cpu();
>         if (cpu != me && (unsigned)cpu < nr_cpu_ids && cpu_online(cpu))
> --
> 2.7.4
>