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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] kvm: Be courteous to other VMs in overcommitted
 scenario in PLE handler
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:52:47 -0400
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Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Srikar <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Nikunj A. Dadhania" <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Jiannan Ouyang <ouyang@cs.pitt.edu>,
	chegu vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>,
	"Andrew M. Theurer" <habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <srivatsa.vaddagiri@gmail.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Takuya Yoshikawa <takuya.yoshikawa@gmail.com>
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On 09/21/2012 09:46 AM, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:30:20 +0530
> Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>> When PLE handler fails to find a better candidate to yield_to, it
>> goes back and does spin again. This is acceptable when we do not
>> have overcommit.
>> But in overcommitted scenarios (especially when we have large
>> number of small guests), it is better to yield.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>   virt/kvm/kvm_main.c |    4 ++++
>>   1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> index 8323685..713b677 100644
>> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> @@ -1660,6 +1660,10 @@ void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
>>   			}
>>   		}
>>   	}
>> +	/* In overcommitted cases, yield instead of spinning */
>> +	if (!yielded && rq_nr_running() > 1)
>> +		schedule();
>
> How about doing cond_resched() instead?

Actually, an actual call to yield() may be better.

That will set scheduler hints to make the scheduler pick
another task for one round, while preserving this task's
top position in the runqueue.

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