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From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Srikar <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Nikunj A. Dadhania" <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, chegu vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: handle last_boosted_vcpu = 0 case
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:52:21 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FEC84BD.6030304@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <168f205d-d65f-4864-99c8-363b12818a9b@zmail17.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>

On 06/28/2012 09:30 PM, Andrew Jones wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> In summary, current PV has huge benefit on non-PLE machine.
>>
>> On PLE machine, the results become very sensitive to load, type of
>> workload and SPIN_THRESHOLD. Also PLE interference has significant
>> effect on them. But still it has slight edge over non PV.
>>
>
> Hi Raghu,
>
> sorry for my slow response. I'm on vacation right now (until the
> 9th of July) and I have limited access to mail.

Ok. Happy Vacation :)

Also, thanks for
> continuing the benchmarking. Question, when you compare PLE vs.
> non-PLE, are you using different machines (one with and one
> without), or are you disabling its use by loading the kvm module
> with the ple_gap=0 modparam as I did?

Yes, I am doing the same when I say with PLE disabled and comparing the
benchmarks (i.e loading kvm module with ple_gap=0).

But older non-PLE results were on a different machine altogether. (I
had limited access to PLE machine).



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-28 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-19 20:20 Regarding improving ple handler (vcpu_on_spin) Raghavendra K T
2012-06-19 20:51 ` [PATCH] kvm: handle last_boosted_vcpu = 0 case Rik van Riel
2012-06-20 20:12   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-06-21  2:11     ` Rik van Riel
2012-06-21 11:26     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-06-22 15:11       ` Andrew Jones
2012-06-22 21:00         ` Raghavendra K T
2012-06-23 18:34           ` Raghavendra K T
2012-06-27 20:27             ` Raghavendra K T
2012-06-27 20:29               ` [PATCH] kvm: handle last_boosted_vcpu = 0 case with benchmark detail attachment Raghavendra K T
2012-06-28 16:00               ` [PATCH] kvm: handle last_boosted_vcpu = 0 case Andrew Jones
2012-06-28 16:22                 ` Raghavendra K T [this message]
2012-06-28 22:55                   ` Vinod, Chegu
2012-07-02 14:49                     ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-03  3:30                       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-07-05 14:45                       ` Andrew Theurer
2012-06-21  6:43   ` Gleb Natapov
2012-06-21 10:23     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-06-28  2:14     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-07-06 17:11   ` Marcelo Tosatti

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