Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: x86: Include host suspended time in steal time.

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed Sep 25 2024 - 10:41:02 EST


+David W for his input.

On Tue, Aug 20, 2024, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
> This series makes it so that the time that the host is suspended is
> included in guests' steal time.
>
> When the host resumes from a suspend, the guest thinks any task
> that was running during the suspend ran for a long time, even though
> the effective run time was much shorter, which can end up having
> negative effects with scheduling. This can be particularly noticeable
> if the guest task was RT, as it can end up getting throttled for a
> long time.
>
> To mitigate this issue, we include the time that the host was
> suspended in steal time, which lets the guest can subtract the
> duration from the tasks' runtime.
>
> (v1 was at https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240710074410.770409-1-suleiman@xxxxxxxxxx/)
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - Accumulate suspend time at machine-independent kvm layer and track per-VCPU
> instead of per-VM.
> - Document changes.
>
> Suleiman Souhlal (3):
> KVM: Introduce kvm_total_suspend_ns().
> KVM: x86: Include host suspended time in steal time.
> KVM: x86: Document host suspend being included in steal time.
>
> Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/msr.rst | 6 ++++--
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> include/linux/kvm_host.h | 2 ++
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.46.0.184.g6999bdac58-goog
>