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From: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"Eduardo Habkost" <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/3] KVM: X86: Choose qspinlock when dedicated vCPUs available
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 11:29:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1518319786-1466-3-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1518319786-1466-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com>

From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>

Waiman Long mentioned that:

 Generally speaking, unfair lock performs well for VMs with a small
 number of vCPUs. Native qspinlock may perform better than pvqspinlock
 if there is vCPU pinning and there is no vCPU over-commitment.

This patch uses a KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED performance hint to allow 
hypervisor admin to choose the qspinlock to be used when a dedicated 
vCPU is available.

PV_DEDICATED = 1, PV_UNHALT = anything: default is qspinlock
PV_DEDICATED = 0, PV_UNHALT = 1: default is Hybrid PV queued/unfair lock
PV_DEDICATED = 0, PV_UNHALT = 0: default is tas

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index 77a0723..c5566d9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -733,6 +733,11 @@ void __init kvm_spinlock_init(void)
 	if (!kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT))
 		return;
 
+	if (kvm_hint_has_feature(KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED)) {
+		static_branch_disable(&virt_spin_lock_key);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	__pv_init_lock_hash();
 	pv_lock_ops.queued_spin_lock_slowpath = __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath;
 	pv_lock_ops.queued_spin_unlock = PV_CALLEE_SAVE(__pv_queued_spin_unlock);
-- 
2.7.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-11  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-11  3:29 [PATCH v3 0/3] KVM: Introduce dedicated vCPUs hint KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED Wanpeng Li
2018-02-11  3:29 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] " Wanpeng Li
2018-02-12  9:38   ` Andrew Jones
2018-02-12 14:12   ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-02-13  1:09     ` Wanpeng Li
2018-02-11  3:29 ` Wanpeng Li [this message]
2018-02-11  3:29 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] KVM: X86: Don't use PV TLB flush with dedicated vCPUs and steal time disabled Wanpeng Li

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