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* [patch -rt 0/2] use simple waitqueue for kvm vcpu waitqueue (v4)
@ 2015-01-21 20:36 Marcelo Tosatti
  2015-01-21 20:36 ` [patch -rt 1/2] KVM: use simple waitqueue for vcpu->wq Marcelo Tosatti
  2015-01-21 20:36 ` [patch -rt 2/2] KVM: lapic: mark LAPIC timer handler as irqsafe Marcelo Tosatti
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Marcelo Tosatti @ 2015-01-21 20:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, linux-rt-users
  Cc: Luiz Capitulino, Rik van Riel, Steven Rostedt, Thomas Gleixner,
	kvm, Paolo Bonzini

Against v3.14-rt branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git

The problem:

On -RT, an emulated LAPIC timer instance has the following path:

1) hard interrupt
2) ksoftirqd is scheduled
3) ksoftirqd wakes up vcpu thread
4) vcpu thread is scheduled

This extra context switch introduces unnecessary latency in the
LAPIC path for a KVM guest.

The solution:

Allow waking up vcpu thread from hardirq context,
thus avoiding the need for ksoftirqd to be scheduled.

Normal waitqueues make use of spinlocks, which on -RT
are sleepable locks. Therefore, waking up a waitqueue
waiter involves locking a sleeping lock, which
is not allowed from hard interrupt context.

cyclictest command line:
# cyclictest -m -n -q -p99 -l 1000000 -h60  -D 1m

This patch reduces the average latency in my tests from 14us to 11us.

v2: improve changelog (Rik van Riel)
v3: limit (once) guest triggered printk and WARN_ON (Paolo Bonzini)
v4: fix typo (Steven Rostedt)




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