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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: avi@redhat.com, zamsden@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com
Subject: [RFC 4/7] change kernel accounting to include steal time
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:43:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282772597-4183-5-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282772597-4183-4-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com>

This patch proposes a common steal time implementation. When no
steal time is accounted, we just add a branch to the current
accounting code, that shouldn't add much overhead.

When we do want to register steal time, we proceed as following:
- if we would account user or system time in this tick, and there is
  out-of-cpu time registered, we skip it altogether, and account steal
  time only.
- if we would account user or system time in this tick, and we got the
  cpu for the whole slice, we proceed normaly.
- if we are idle in this tick, we flush out-of-cpu time to give it the
  chance to update whatever last-measure internal variable it may have.

This approach is simple, but proved to work well for my test scenarios.
in a UP guest on UP host, with a cpu-hog in both guest and host shows
~ 50 % steal time. steal time is also accounted proportionally, if
nice values are given to the host cpu-hog.

A cpu-hog in the host with no load in the guest, produces 0 % steal time,
with 100 % idle, as one would expect.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |    1 +
 kernel/sched.c        |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 0478888..e571ddd 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ long io_schedule_timeout(long timeout);
 extern void cpu_init (void);
 extern void trap_init(void);
 extern void update_process_times(int user);
+extern cputime_t (*hypervisor_steal_time)(void);
 extern void scheduler_tick(void);
 
 extern void sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p);
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index f52a880..9695c92 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3157,6 +3157,16 @@ unsigned long long thread_group_sched_runtime(struct task_struct *p)
 	return ns;
 }
 
+cputime_t (*hypervisor_steal_time)(void) = NULL;
+
+static inline cputime_t get_steal_time_from_hypervisor(void)
+{
+	if (!hypervisor_steal_time)
+		return 0;
+	return hypervisor_steal_time();
+}
+
+
 /*
  * Account user cpu time to a process.
  * @p: the process that the cpu time gets accounted to
@@ -3169,6 +3179,12 @@ void account_user_time(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t cputime,
 	struct cpu_usage_stat *cpustat = &kstat_this_cpu.cpustat;
 	cputime64_t tmp;
 
+	tmp = get_steal_time_from_hypervisor();
+	if (tmp) {
+		account_steal_time(tmp);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	/* Add user time to process. */
 	p->utime = cputime_add(p->utime, cputime);
 	p->utimescaled = cputime_add(p->utimescaled, cputime_scaled);
@@ -3234,6 +3250,12 @@ void account_system_time(struct task_struct *p, int hardirq_offset,
 		return;
 	}
 
+	tmp = get_steal_time_from_hypervisor();
+	if (tmp) {
+		account_steal_time(tmp);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	/* Add system time to process. */
 	p->stime = cputime_add(p->stime, cputime);
 	p->stimescaled = cputime_add(p->stimescaled, cputime_scaled);
@@ -3276,6 +3298,13 @@ void account_idle_time(cputime_t cputime)
 	cputime64_t cputime64 = cputime_to_cputime64(cputime);
 	struct rq *rq = this_rq();
 
+	/*
+	 * if we're idle, we don't account it as steal time, since we did
+	 * not want to run anyway. We do call the steal function, however, to
+	 * give the guest the chance to flush its internal buffers
+	 */
+	get_steal_time_from_hypervisor();
+
 	if (atomic_read(&rq->nr_iowait) > 0)
 		cpustat->iowait = cputime64_add(cpustat->iowait, cputime64);
 	else
-- 
1.6.2.2


  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-25 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-25 21:43 [RFC 0/7] KVM steal time implementation Glauber Costa
2010-08-25 21:43 ` [RFC 1/7] Implement getnsboottime kernel API Glauber Costa
2010-08-25 21:43   ` [RFC 2/7] change headers preparing for steal time Glauber Costa
2010-08-25 21:43     ` [RFC 3/7] measure time out of guest Glauber Costa
2010-08-25 21:43       ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2010-08-25 21:43         ` [RFC 5/7] kvm steal time implementation Glauber Costa
2010-08-25 21:43           ` [RFC 6/7] touch softlockup watchdog Glauber Costa
2010-08-25 21:43             ` [RFC 7/7] tell guest about steal time feature Glauber Costa
2010-08-26 22:13           ` [RFC 5/7] kvm steal time implementation Rik van Riel
2010-08-26 22:35             ` Glauber Costa
2010-08-26 17:23         ` [RFC 4/7] change kernel accounting to include steal time Marcelo Tosatti
2010-08-26 20:28           ` Glauber Costa
2010-08-26 20:47             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-08-26 21:05               ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-26 21:13               ` Glauber Costa
2010-08-26 21:14             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-26 21:40               ` Glauber Costa
2010-08-26 23:12                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-08-27  0:33                   ` Glauber Costa
2010-08-27 15:25                     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-08-26 21:19         ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-26 21:39           ` Glauber Costa
2010-08-29  9:59         ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-29 15:13           ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-29 15:25             ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-29 15:42               ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-29 15:47                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-30 12:42           ` Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 13:15             ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-26 20:54       ` [RFC 3/7] measure time out of guest Zachary Amsden
2010-08-26 21:14         ` Glauber Costa
2010-08-29  9:53       ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-26 20:44     ` [RFC 2/7] change headers preparing for steal time Zachary Amsden
2010-08-26 21:04       ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-26 21:17         ` Glauber Costa
2010-08-26 22:11           ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-29  9:51     ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-30 12:44       ` Glauber Costa
2010-08-30 13:10         ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-26 19:46   ` [RFC 1/7] Implement getnsboottime kernel API Rik van Riel

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