From: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Mueller <mimu@linux.ibm.com>,
Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com>,
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>,
Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>,
Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>,
farman@linux.ibm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: s390: clear kicked_mask if not idle after set
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:45:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211020124513.6b90a15b.pasic@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae8b3b11-2eef-0712-faee-5e3467d3e985@de.ibm.com>
On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:31:19 +0200
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Before releasing something like this, where none of us is sure if
> > it really saves cpu cost, I'd prefer to run some measurement with
> > the whole kicked_mask logic removed and to compare the number of
> > vcpu wake ups with the number of interrupts to be processed by
> > the gib alert mechanism in a slightly over committed host while
> > driving with Matthews test load.
>
> But I think patch 1 and 2 can go immediately as they measurably or
> testable fix things. Correct?
I think so as well. And if patch 3 is going to be dropped, I would
really like to keep the unconditional clear in kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable(),
as my analysis in the discussion points out: I think it can save us
form trouble this patch is trying to address.
Regards,
Halil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-20 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-19 17:53 [PATCH 0/3] fixes for __airqs_kick_single_vcpu() Halil Pasic
2021-10-19 17:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: s390: clear kicked_mask before sleeping again Halil Pasic
2021-10-19 21:22 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-10-20 5:35 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2021-10-20 6:03 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-10-20 6:08 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2021-10-20 8:14 ` Halil Pasic
2021-10-20 10:42 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2021-10-20 8:06 ` Michael Mueller
2021-10-20 10:44 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2021-10-19 17:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: s390: preserve deliverable_mask in __airqs_kick_single_vcpu Halil Pasic
2021-10-19 21:24 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-10-20 5:39 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2021-10-20 8:08 ` Michael Mueller
2021-10-19 17:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: s390: clear kicked_mask if not idle after set Halil Pasic
2021-10-19 21:35 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-10-20 5:14 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-10-20 7:52 ` Halil Pasic
2021-10-26 8:52 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-10-20 9:48 ` Michael Mueller
2021-10-20 10:31 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-10-20 10:45 ` Halil Pasic [this message]
2021-10-20 10:52 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-10-20 10:51 ` Michael Mueller
2021-10-20 11:04 ` [PATCH 0/3] fixes for __airqs_kick_single_vcpu() Christian Borntraeger
2021-10-20 12:12 ` Halil Pasic
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