Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: vCPU kick tax cut for running vCPU

Wanpeng Li
2021-10-16T02:54:09Z

On Sat, 16 Oct 2021 at 07:26, Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 09, 2021, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> > From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
> >
> > Sometimes a vCPU kick is following a pending request, even if @vcpu is
> > the running vCPU. It suffers from both rcuwait_wake_up() which has
> > rcu/memory barrier operations and cmpxchg(). Let's check vcpu->wait
> > before rcu_wait_wake_up() and whether @vcpu is the running vCPU before
> > cmpxchg() to tax cut this overhead.
> >
> > We evaluate the kvm-unit-test/vmexit.flat on an Intel ICX box, most of the
> > scores can improve ~600 cpu cycles especially when APICv is disabled.
> >
> > tscdeadline_immed
> > tscdeadline
> > self_ipi_sti_nop
> > ..............
> > x2apic_self_ipi_tpr_sti_hlt
> >
> > Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
> > ---
> > v1 -> v2:
> > * move checking running vCPU logic to kvm_vcpu_kick
> > * check rcuwait_active(&vcpu->wait) etc
> >
> > virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 13 ++++++++++---
> > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> > index 7851f3a1b5f7..18209d7b3711 100644
> > --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> > +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> > @@ -3314,8 +3314,15 @@ void kvm_vcpu_kick(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > {
> > int me, cpu;
> >
> > - if (kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu))
> > - return;
> > + me = get_cpu();
> > +
> > + if (rcuwait_active(&vcpu->wait) && kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu))
>
> This needs to use kvm_arch_vcpu_get_wait(), not vcpu->wait, because PPC has some
> funky wait stuff.
>
> One potential issue I didn't think of before. rcuwait_active() comes with the
> below warning, which means we might be at risk of a false negative that could
> result in a missed wakeup. I'm not postive on that though.

There is only ever a single waiting vCPU, an event will be requested
before kick the sleeping vCPU and it will be checked after setting
vcpu->wait to task. I can't find scenario could result in a missed
wakeup.

Wanpeng

>
> /*
> * Note: this provides no serialization and, just as with waitqueues,
> * requires care to estimate as to whether or not the wait is active.
> */