Re: [PATCH v2] x86/paravirt: Don't make vcpu_is_preempted() a callee-save function

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 10/02/2017 16:43, Waiman Long wrote:
> It was found when running fio sequential write test with a XFS ramdisk
> on a VM running on a 2-socket x86-64 system, the %CPU times as reported
> by perf were as follows:
> 
>  69.75%  0.59%  fio  [k] down_write
>  69.15%  0.01%  fio  [k] call_rwsem_down_write_failed
>  67.12%  1.12%  fio  [k] rwsem_down_write_failed
>  63.48% 52.77%  fio  [k] osq_lock
>   9.46%  7.88%  fio  [k] __raw_callee_save___kvm_vcpu_is_preempt
>   3.93%  3.93%  fio  [k] __kvm_vcpu_is_preempted
> 
> Making vcpu_is_preempted() a callee-save function has a relatively
> high cost on x86-64 primarily due to at least one more cacheline of
> data access from the saving and restoring of registers (8 of them)
> to and from stack as well as one more level of function call. As
> vcpu_is_preempted() is called within the spinlock, mutex and rwsem
> slowpaths, there isn't much to gain by making it callee-save. So it
> is now changed to a normal function call instead.
> 
> With this patch applied on both bare-metal & KVM guest on a 2-socekt
> 16-core 32-thread system with 16 parallel jobs (8 on each socket), the
> aggregrate bandwidth of the fio test on an XFS ramdisk were as follows:
> 
>                        Bare Metal                KVM Guest
>    I/O Type      w/o patch    with patch   w/o patch    with patch
>    --------      ---------    ----------   ---------    ----------
>    random read   8650.5 MB/s  8560.9 MB/s  7602.9 MB/s  8196.1 MB/s  
>    seq read      9104.8 MB/s  9397.2 MB/s  8293.7 MB/s  8566.9 MB/s
>    random write  1623.8 MB/s  1626.7 MB/s  1590.6 MB/s  1700.7 MB/s
>    seq write     1626.4 MB/s  1624.9 MB/s  1604.8 MB/s  1726.3 MB/s
> 
> The perf data (on KVM guest) now became:
> 
>  70.78%  0.58%  fio  [k] down_write
>  70.20%  0.01%  fio  [k] call_rwsem_down_write_failed
>  69.70%  1.17%  fio  [k] rwsem_down_write_failed
>  59.91% 55.42%  fio  [k] osq_lock
>  10.14% 10.14%  fio  [k] __kvm_vcpu_is_preempted
> 
> On bare metal, the patch doesn't introduce any performance
> regression. On KVM guest, it produces noticeable performance
> improvement (up to 7%).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
> ---
>  v1->v2:
>   - Rerun the fio test on a different system on both bare-metal and a
>     KVM guest. Both sockets were utilized in this test.
>   - The commit log was updated with new performance numbers, but the
>     patch wasn't changed.
>   - Drop patch 2.
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h       | 2 +-
>  arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 2 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c                 | 7 ++-----
>  arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c  | 6 ++----
>  arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c               | 4 +---
>  5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
> index 864f57b..2515885 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
> @@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ static __always_inline void pv_kick(int cpu)
>  
>  static __always_inline bool pv_vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu)
>  {
> -	return PVOP_CALLEE1(bool, pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted, cpu);
> +	return PVOP_CALL1(bool, pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted, cpu);
>  }
>  
>  #endif /* SMP && PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
> index bb2de45..88dc852 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
> @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ struct pv_lock_ops {
>  	void (*wait)(u8 *ptr, u8 val);
>  	void (*kick)(int cpu);
>  
> -	struct paravirt_callee_save vcpu_is_preempted;
> +	bool (*vcpu_is_preempted)(int cpu);
>  };
>  
>  /* This contains all the paravirt structures: we get a convenient
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> index 099fcba..eb3753d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> @@ -595,7 +595,6 @@ __visible bool __kvm_vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu)
>  
>  	return !!src->preempted;
>  }
> -PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(__kvm_vcpu_is_preempted);
>  
>  /*
>   * Setup pv_lock_ops to exploit KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT if present.
> @@ -614,10 +613,8 @@ void __init kvm_spinlock_init(void)
>  	pv_lock_ops.wait = kvm_wait;
>  	pv_lock_ops.kick = kvm_kick_cpu;
>  
> -	if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME)) {
> -		pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted =
> -			PV_CALLEE_SAVE(__kvm_vcpu_is_preempted);
> -	}
> +	if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME))
> +		pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted = __kvm_vcpu_is_preempted;
>  }
>  
>  #endif	/* CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c
> index 6259327..da050bc 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c
> @@ -24,12 +24,10 @@ __visible bool __native_vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu)
>  {
>  	return false;
>  }
> -PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(__native_vcpu_is_preempted);
>  
>  bool pv_is_native_vcpu_is_preempted(void)
>  {
> -	return pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted.func ==
> -		__raw_callee_save___native_vcpu_is_preempted;
> +	return pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted == __native_vcpu_is_preempted;
>  }
>  
>  struct pv_lock_ops pv_lock_ops = {
> @@ -38,7 +36,7 @@ struct pv_lock_ops pv_lock_ops = {
>  	.queued_spin_unlock = PV_CALLEE_SAVE(__native_queued_spin_unlock),
>  	.wait = paravirt_nop,
>  	.kick = paravirt_nop,
> -	.vcpu_is_preempted = PV_CALLEE_SAVE(__native_vcpu_is_preempted),
> +	.vcpu_is_preempted = __native_vcpu_is_preempted,
>  #endif /* SMP */
>  };
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(pv_lock_ops);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
> index 25a7c43..c85bb8f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
> @@ -114,8 +114,6 @@ void xen_uninit_lock_cpu(int cpu)
>  	per_cpu(irq_name, cpu) = NULL;
>  }
>  
> -PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(xen_vcpu_stolen);
> -
>  /*
>   * 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
> @@ -138,7 +136,7 @@ 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 = PV_CALLEE_SAVE(xen_vcpu_stolen);
> +	pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted = xen_vcpu_stolen;
>  }
>  
>  static __init int xen_parse_nopvspin(char *arg)
> 

Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Thank you very much!

Paolo