From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eleEQ-0006Bp-RP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:19:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eleEK-0000Se-Mh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:19:02 -0500 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:56078 helo=mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eleEK-0000SA-GX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:18:56 -0500 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098414.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w1DHG7jY031598 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:18:55 -0500 Received: from e06smtp11.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp11.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.107]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2g42gjwax1-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:18:54 -0500 Received: from localhost by e06smtp11.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:18:53 -0000 From: Viktor Mihajlovski Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:18:45 +0100 Message-Id: <1518542328-25741-1-git-send-email-mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 0/3] add query-cpu-fast and related s390 changes List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: agraf@suse.de, ehabkost@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com, cohuck@redhat.com, david@redhat.com, dgilbert@redhat.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, rth@twiddle.net, eblake@redhat.com This series consolidates patches around a performance issue caused by the usage of QMP query-cpus. A performance issue was found in an OpenStack environment, where ceilometer was collecting domain statistics with libvirt. The domain statistics reported by libvirt include the vCPU halted state, which in turn is retrieved with QMP query-cpus. This causes two issues: 1. Performance: on most architectures query-cpus needs to issue a KVM ioctl to find out whether a vCPU was halted. This is not the case for s390 but query-cpus is always causing the vCPU to exit the VM. 2. Semantics: on x86 and other architectures, halted is a highly transient state, which is likely to have already changed shortly after the state information has been retrieved. This is not the case for s390, where halted is an indication that the vCPU is stopped, meaning its not available to the guest operating system until it has been restarted. The following patches help to alleviate the issues: Patch 1/3: Adds architecture specific data to the QMP CpuInfo type, exposing the existing s390 cpu-state in QMP. The cpu-state is a representation more adequate than the ambiguous 'halted' condition. Patch 2/3: Adds a new QMP function query-cpus-fast, which will only retrieve vCPU information that can be obtained without interrupting the vCPUs of a running VM. It introduces a new return type CpuInfoFast with the subset of fields meeting this condition. Specifically, the halted state is not part of CpuInfoFast. QMP clients like libvirt are encouraged to switch to the new API for vCPU information. Patch 3/3: Adds the s390-specific cpu state to CpuInfoFast, allowing management apps to find out whether a vCPU is in the stopped state. This extension leads to a partial duplication of field definitions from CpuInfo to CpuInfoFast. This should be tolerable if CpuInfo is deprecated and eventually removed. Series v1 -> v2: Patch 2/3: o Changed formatting of hmp info cpus_fast to match that of info cpus. This makes it easier for clients to switch to the fast call. Patch 3/3: o Same formatting change for info cpus_fast as in 2/3, only for s390-specific cpu state. Luiz Capitulino (1): qmp: add query-cpus-fast Viktor Mihajlovski (2): qmp: expose s390-specific CPU info qmp: add architecture specific cpu data for query-cpus-fast cpus.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++ hmp-commands-info.hx | 14 ++++++ hmp.c | 28 +++++++++++ hmp.h | 1 + hw/intc/s390_flic.c | 4 +- hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c | 2 +- qapi-schema.json | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- target/s390x/cpu.c | 24 ++++----- target/s390x/cpu.h | 7 +-- target/s390x/kvm.c | 8 +-- target/s390x/sigp.c | 38 +++++++------- 11 files changed, 257 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) -- 1.9.1