Re: [PATCH 0/5] KVM: X86: Scaling Guest OS Critical Sections with boosting

[Wanpeng Li]

kindly ping, :)
On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 at 16:30, Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The missing semantic gap that occurs when a guest OS is preempted
> when executing its own critical section, this leads to degradation
> of application scalability. We try to bridge this semantic gap in
> some ways, by passing guest preempt_count to the host and checking
> guest irq disable state, the hypervisor now knows whether guest
> OSes are running in the critical section, the hypervisor yield-on-spin
> heuristics can be more smart this time to boost the vCPU candidate
> who is in the critical section to mitigate this preemption problem,
> in addition, it is more likely to be a potential lock holder.
>
> Testing on 96 HT 2 socket Xeon CLX server, with 96 vCPUs VM 100GB RAM,
> one VM running benchmark, the other(none-2) VMs running cpu-bound
> workloads, There is no performance regression for other benchmarks
> like Unixbench etc.
>
> 1VM
>             vanilla    optimized    improved
>
> hackbench -l 50000
>               28         21.45        30.5%
> ebizzy -M
>              12189       12354        1.4%
> dbench
>              712 MB/sec  722 MB/sec   1.4%
>
> 2VM:
>             vanilla    optimized    improved
>
> hackbench -l 10000
>               29.4        26          13%
> ebizzy -M
>              3834        4033          5%
> dbench
>            42.3 MB/sec  44.1 MB/sec   4.3%
>
> 3VM:
>             vanilla    optimized    improved
>
> hackbench -l 10000
>               47         35.46        33%
> ebizzy -M
>              3828        4031         5%
> dbench
>            30.5 MB/sec  31.16 MB/sec  2.3%
>
> Wanpeng Li (5):
>   KVM: X86: Add MSR_KVM_PREEMPT_COUNT support
>   KVM: X86: Add guest interrupt disable state support
>   KVM: X86: Boost vCPU which is in the critical section
>   x86/kvm: Add MSR_KVM_PREEMPT_COUNT guest support
>   KVM: X86: Expose PREEMT_COUNT CPUID feature bit to guest
>
>  Documentation/virt/kvm/cpuid.rst     |  3 ++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h      |  7 ++++
>  arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h |  2 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c                | 10 +++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c                 |  3 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                   | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/kvm_host.h             |  1 +
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c                  |  7 ++++
>  8 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --
> 2.25.1
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