From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pan Xinhui Subject: [PATCH v5 7/9] x86, xen: support vcpu preempted check Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:27:52 -0400 Message-ID: <1476998874-2089-8-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1476998874-2089-1-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1476998874-2089-1-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Archive: List-Post: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel-request@lists.xenproject.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, kernellwp@gmail.com, jgross@suse.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, bsingharora@gmail.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com, Pan Xinhui List-ID: From: Juergen Gross Support the vcpu_is_preempted() functionality under Xen. This will enhance lock performance on overcommitted hosts (more runnable vcpus than physical cpus in the system) as doing busy waits for preempted vcpus will hurt system performance far worse than early yielding. A quick test (4 vcpus on 1 physical cpu doing a parallel build job with "make -j 8") reduced system time by about 5% with this patch. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui --- arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c index 3d6e006..74756bb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c @@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ void xen_uninit_lock_cpu(int cpu) per_cpu(irq_name, cpu) = NULL; } - /* * Our init of PV spinlocks is split in two init functions due to us * using paravirt patching and jump labels patching and having to do @@ -137,6 +136,8 @@ void __init xen_init_spinlocks(void) pv_lock_ops.queued_spin_unlock = PV_CALLEE_SAVE(__pv_queued_spin_unlock); pv_lock_ops.wait = xen_qlock_wait; pv_lock_ops.kick = xen_qlock_kick; + + pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted = xen_vcpu_stolen; } /* -- 2.4.11