Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests

Radim Krčmář
2017-03-21T16:58:32Z

2017-03-21 05:22+0200, Michael S. Tsirkin:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 09:23:56AM -0400, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
>> OK, now on to Radim's test, on the MacPro1,1:
>>
>> [kvm-unit-tests]$ time TIMEOUT=20 ./x86-run x86/mwait.flat -append '240 1 1'
>> timeout -k 1s --foreground 20 qemu-kvm -nodefaults -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/mwait.flat -append 240 1 1
>> enabling apic
>> PASS: resumed from mwait 10000 times
>> SUMMARY: 1 tests
>>
>> real 0m0.746s
>> user 0m0.542s
>> sys 0m0.215s
>> [kvm-unit-tests]$ time TIMEOUT=20 ./x86-run x86/mwait.flat -append '240 1 0'
>> timeout -k 1s --foreground 20 qemu-kvm -nodefaults -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/mwait.flat -append 240 1 0
>> enabling apic
>> PASS: resumed from mwait 10000 times
>> SUMMARY: 1 tests
>>
>> real 0m0.743s
>> user 0m0.528s
>> sys 0m0.226s
>> [kvm-unit-tests]$ time TIMEOUT=20 ./x86-run x86/mwait.flat -append '240 1 1' -smp 2
>> timeout -k 1s --foreground 20 qemu-kvm -nodefaults -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/mwait.flat -append 240 1 1 -smp 2
>> enabling apic
>> enabling apic
>> FAIL: resumed from mwait 10150 times
>> SUMMARY: 1 tests, 1 unexpected failures
>>
>> real 0m0.745s
>> user 0m0.545s
>> sys 0m0.214s
>> [kvm-unit-tests]$ time TIMEOUT=20 ./x86-run x86/mwait.flat -append '240 1 0' -smp 2
>> timeout -k 1s --foreground 20 qemu-kvm -nodefaults -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/mwait.flat -append 240 1 0 -smp 2
>> enabling apic
>> enabling apic
>> FAIL: resumed from mwait 10116 times
>> SUMMARY: 1 tests, 1 unexpected failures
>>
>> real 0m0.744s
>> user 0m0.541s
>> sys 0m0.217s
>>
>> HTH,
>> --Gabriel
>
> Weird. How can it go above 10000? Radim - any idea?

In '-smp 2', the writing VCPU always does 10000 wakeups by writing into
monitored memory, but the mwaiting VCPU can be also woken up by host
interrupts, which might add a few exits depending on timing.

I didn't spend much time in making the PASS/FAIL mean much, or ensuring
that we only get 10000 wakeups ... it is nothing to be worried about.

Hint 240 behaves as nop even on my system, so I still don't find
anything insane on that machine (if OS X is exluded) ...