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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>,
	Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 05/12] xen: yield to IPI target if necessary
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:48:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071015210114.975881415@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20071015204840.074767068@goop.org

[-- Attachment #1: xen-ipi-yield.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 2222 bytes --]

When sending a call-function IPI to a vcpu, yield if the vcpu isn't
running.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>

---
 arch/x86/xen/smp.c     |   14 ++++++++++----
 arch/x86/xen/time.c    |    6 ++++++
 arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h |    2 ++
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

===================================================================
--- a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
@@ -360,7 +360,8 @@ int xen_smp_call_function_mask(cpumask_t
 			       void *info, int wait)
 {
 	struct call_data_struct data;
-	int cpus;
+	int cpus, cpu;
+	bool yield;
 
 	/* Holding any lock stops cpus from going down. */
 	spin_lock(&call_lock);
@@ -389,9 +390,14 @@ int xen_smp_call_function_mask(cpumask_t
 	/* Send a message to other CPUs and wait for them to respond */
 	xen_send_IPI_mask(mask, XEN_CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR);
 
-	/* Make sure other vcpus get a chance to run.
-	   XXX too severe?  Maybe we should check the other CPU's states? */
-	HYPERVISOR_sched_op(SCHEDOP_yield, 0);
+	/* Make sure other vcpus get a chance to run if they need to. */
+	yield = false;
+	for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, mask)
+		if (xen_vcpu_stolen(cpu))
+			yield = true;
+
+	if (yield)
+		HYPERVISOR_sched_op(SCHEDOP_yield, 0);
 
 	/* Wait for response */
 	while (atomic_read(&data.started) != cpus ||
===================================================================
--- a/arch/x86/xen/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/time.c
@@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ static void get_runstate_snapshot(struct
 		*res = *state;
 		barrier();
 	} while (get64(&state->state_entry_time) != state_time);
+}
+
+/* return true when a vcpu could run but has no real cpu to run on */
+bool xen_vcpu_stolen(int vcpu)
+{
+	return per_cpu(runstate, vcpu).state == RUNSTATE_runnable;
 }
 
 static void setup_runstate_info(int cpu)
===================================================================
--- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ int xen_set_wallclock(unsigned long time
 int xen_set_wallclock(unsigned long time);
 unsigned long long xen_sched_clock(void);
 
+bool xen_vcpu_stolen(int vcpu);
+
 void xen_mark_init_mm_pinned(void);
 
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(enum paravirt_lazy_mode, xen_lazy_mode);

-- 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-15 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-15 20:48 [PATCH 00/12] xen/paravirt_ops patches for 2.6.24 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 20:48 ` [PATCH 01/12] paravirt: refactor struct paravirt_ops into smaller pv_*_ops Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 20:48 ` [PATCH 02/12] paravirt: clean up lazy mode handling Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 20:48 ` [PATCH 03/12] remove dead code in pgtable_cache_init Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 20:48 ` [PATCH 04/12] Clean up duplicate includes in arch/i386/xen/ Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 21:58   ` Jesper Juhl
2007-10-15 20:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-10-15 20:48 ` [PATCH 06/12] xen: add batch completion callbacks Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 20:48 ` [PATCH 07/12] xen: deal with stale cr3 values when unpinning pagetables Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 20:48 ` [PATCH 08/12] xen: lock pte pages while pinning/unpinning Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 20:48 ` [PATCH 09/12] xen: ask the hypervisor how much space it needs reserved Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 20:48 ` [PATCH 10/12] xen: fix incorrect vcpu_register_vcpu_info hypercall argument Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 20:48 ` [PATCH 11/12] xen: add some debug output for failed multicalls Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 20:48 ` [PATCH 12/12] xfs: eagerly remove vmap mappings to avoid upsetting Xen Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 23:04   ` David Chinner
2007-10-15 21:54 ` [stable] [PATCH 00/12] xen/paravirt_ops patches for 2.6.24 Greg KH
2007-10-15 21:59   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 22:03     ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-15 23:48       ` Zachary Amsden
2007-11-13 23:22     ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 23:53       ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-14  0:00         ` Greg KH
2007-11-14 18:40       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-14 19:03         ` Greg KH
2007-11-14 19:53           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-14 22:01             ` Greg KH

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