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When running a preemptible kernel on a NUMA system with a large number of CPUs (100+ of CPUs), waiting to set the affinity of the grandchildren until after the grandchild is fully spun up results in total test runtimes of over a minute, presumably due to cross-node NUMA penalties and scheduler lock contention. E.g. from the perspective of the caller, when waiting to affine the tasks, pthread_create() takes ~100x longer. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson --- .../selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test.c | 23 +++++++------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test.c index 3147f5c97e94..f088b4af3ccc 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #define FORK_NUM (1ULL << 9) #define DELAY_US_MAX 2000 +static cpu_set_t threads_cpu_set; sem_t *sem; static void guest_code(void) @@ -35,6 +36,8 @@ static void *run_vcpu(void *arg) struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = arg; struct kvm_run *run = vcpu->run; + kvm_sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &threads_cpu_set); + vcpu_run(vcpu); TEST_ASSERT(false, "%s: exited with reason %d: %s", @@ -47,6 +50,8 @@ static void *sleeping_thread(void *arg) { int fd; + kvm_sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &threads_cpu_set); + while (true) { fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR); close(fd); @@ -64,14 +69,6 @@ static inline void check_create_thread(pthread_t *thread, pthread_attr_t *attr, TEST_ASSERT(r == 0, "%s: failed to create thread", __func__); } -static inline void check_set_affinity(pthread_t thread, cpu_set_t *cpu_set) -{ - int r; - - r = pthread_setaffinity_np(thread, sizeof(cpu_set_t), cpu_set); - TEST_ASSERT(r == 0, "%s: failed set affinity", __func__); -} - static inline void check_join(pthread_t thread, void **retval) { int r; @@ -84,16 +81,11 @@ static void run_test(u32 run) { struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu; struct kvm_vm *vm; - cpu_set_t cpu_set; pthread_t threads[VCPU_NUM]; pthread_t throw_away; void *b; u32 i, j; - CPU_ZERO(&cpu_set); - for (i = 0; i < VCPU_NUM; i++) - CPU_SET(i, &cpu_set); - vm = vm_create(VCPU_NUM); pr_debug("%s: [%d] start vcpus\n", __func__, run); @@ -101,12 +93,10 @@ static void run_test(u32 run) vcpu = vm_vcpu_add(vm, i, guest_code); check_create_thread(&threads[i], NULL, run_vcpu, vcpu); - check_set_affinity(threads[i], &cpu_set); for (j = 0; j < SLEEPING_THREAD_NUM; ++j) { check_create_thread(&throw_away, NULL, sleeping_thread, (void *)NULL); - check_set_affinity(throw_away, &cpu_set); } } pr_debug("%s: [%d] all threads launched\n", __func__, run); @@ -153,6 +143,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) int s, r; pid_t pid; + for (i = 0; i < VCPU_NUM; i++) + CPU_SET(i, &threads_cpu_set); + sem = sem_open("vm_sem", O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0644, 0); sem_unlink("vm_sem"); -- 2.55.0.508.g3f0d502094-goog