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From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:21:46 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5342E5B2.1070306@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5342D475.7060503@hp.com>

On 04/07/2014 10:08 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 04/07/2014 02:14 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
[...]
>> But I am seeing hang in overcommit cases. Gdb showed that many vcpus
>> are halted and there was no progress. Suspecting the problem /race with
>> halting, I removed the halt() part of kvm_hibernate().  I am yet to
>> take a closer look at the code on halt() related changes.
>
> It seems like there may still be race conditions where the current code
> is not handling correctly. I will look into that to see where the
> problem is. BTW, what test do you use to produce the hang condition?

Running ebizzy on 2 of the vms simultaneously (for sometime in repeated 
loop) could reproduce it.

>> Patch series with that change gave around 20% improvement for dbench
>> 2x and 30% improvement for ebizzy 2x cases. (1x has no significant
>> loss/gain).
>>

While at it, Just  a correction it was 30% for  ebizzy1.5x  and around
80% for ebizzy 2x.

> What is the baseline for the performance improvement? Is it without the
> unfair lock and PV qspinlock?

Baseline was 3.14-rc8 without any of the qspin patch series.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:21:46 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5342E5B2.1070306@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20140407175146.QcXzca1tFRpftEws08iuRzi7GW6zUyQpBiVm0l3L_hQ@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5342D475.7060503@hp.com>

On 04/07/2014 10:08 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 04/07/2014 02:14 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
[...]
>> But I am seeing hang in overcommit cases. Gdb showed that many vcpus
>> are halted and there was no progress. Suspecting the problem /race with
>> halting, I removed the halt() part of kvm_hibernate().  I am yet to
>> take a closer look at the code on halt() related changes.
>
> It seems like there may still be race conditions where the current code
> is not handling correctly. I will look into that to see where the
> problem is. BTW, what test do you use to produce the hang condition?

Running ebizzy on 2 of the vms simultaneously (for sometime in repeated 
loop) could reproduce it.

>> Patch series with that change gave around 20% improvement for dbench
>> 2x and 30% improvement for ebizzy 2x cases. (1x has no significant
>> loss/gain).
>>

While at it, Just  a correction it was 30% for  ebizzy1.5x  and around
80% for ebizzy 2x.

> What is the baseline for the performance improvement? Is it without the
> unfair lock and PV qspinlock?

Baseline was 3.14-rc8 without any of the qspin patch series.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-07 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-02 13:27 [PATCH v8 00/10] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 01/10] qspinlock: A generic 4-byte queue spinlock implementation Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 13:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-04 13:00     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-04 14:59     ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 14:59       ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 17:53       ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-04 17:53         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-07 14:16       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-07 14:16         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-04 16:57     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 16:57       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 17:08       ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 17:08         ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 17:54         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-04 17:54           ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-07 14:09         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-07 14:09           ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-07 16:59           ` Waiman Long
2014-04-07 16:59             ` Waiman Long
2014-04-07 14:12       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-07 14:12         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-07 14:33         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-07 14:33           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 02/10] qspinlock, x86: Enable x86-64 to use queue spinlock Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 03/10] qspinlock: More optimized code for smaller NR_CPUS Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 04/10] qspinlock: Optimized code path for 2 contending tasks Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 05/10] pvqspinlock, x86: Allow unfair spinlock in a PV guest Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 06/10] pvqspinlock: Enable lock stealing in queue lock waiters Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 07/10] pvqspinlock, x86: Rename paravirt_ticketlocks_enabled Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 08/10] pvqspinlock, x86: Add qspinlock para-virtualization support Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 09/10] pvqspinlock, x86: Enable qspinlock PV support for KVM Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 10/10] pvqspinlock, x86: Enable qspinlock PV support for XEN Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 14:39   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-02 14:39     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-02 20:38     ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 20:38       ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 14:32 ` [PATCH v8 00/10] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-02 14:32   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-02 20:35   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-03  2:10     ` Waiman Long
2014-04-03  2:10       ` Waiman Long
2014-04-03 17:23       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-03 17:23         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04  2:57         ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04  2:57           ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 16:55           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 16:55             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 17:13             ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 17:13               ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 17:58               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 17:58                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 18:33                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 18:33                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 18:14             ` Marcos E. Matsunaga
2014-04-04 15:25   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 15:25     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-07  6:14 ` Raghavendra K T
2014-04-07 16:38   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-07 16:38     ` Waiman Long
2014-04-07 17:51     ` Raghavendra K T [this message]
2014-04-07 17:51       ` Raghavendra K T
2014-04-08 19:15       ` Waiman Long
2014-04-08 19:15         ` Waiman Long
2014-04-09 12:08         ` Raghavendra K T
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2014-04-01 20:47 Waiman Long

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