linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/s390
Christian Borntraeger 3491caf275 KVM: halt_polling: provide a way to qualify wakeups during poll
Some wakeups should not be considered a sucessful poll. For example on
s390 I/O interrupts are usually floating, which means that _ALL_ CPUs
would be considered runnable - letting all vCPUs poll all the time for
transactional like workload, even if one vCPU would be enough.
This can result in huge CPU usage for large guests.
This patch lets architectures provide a way to qualify wakeups if they
should be considered a good/bad wakeups in regard to polls.

For s390 the implementation will fence of halt polling for anything but
known good, single vCPU events. The s390 implementation for floating
interrupts does a wakeup for one vCPU, but the interrupt will be delivered
by whatever CPU checks first for a pending interrupt. We prefer the
woken up CPU by marking the poll of this CPU as "good" poll.
This code will also mark several other wakeup reasons like IPI or
expired timers as "good". This will of course also mark some events as
not sucessful. As  KVM on z runs always as a 2nd level hypervisor,
we prefer to not poll, unless we are really sure, though.

This patch successfully limits the CPU usage for cases like uperf 1byte
transactional ping pong workload or wakeup heavy workload like OLTP
while still providing a proper speedup.

This also introduced a new vcpu stat "halt_poll_no_tuning" that marks
wakeups that are considered not good for polling.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> (for an earlier version)
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
[Rename config symbol. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-05-13 17:29:23 +02:00
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appldata s390: appldata: drop owner assignment from platform_drivers 2014-10-20 16:20:13 +02:00
boot s390/boot/decompression: disable floating point in decompressor 2015-09-29 14:45:10 +02:00
configs s390/configs: update default configurations 2016-01-11 13:01:28 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2016-04-01 07:15:54 -05:00
hypfs mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
include KVM: halt_polling: provide a way to qualify wakeups during poll 2016-05-13 17:29:23 +02:00
kernel Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2016-04-01 07:15:54 -05:00
kvm KVM: halt_polling: provide a way to qualify wakeups during poll 2016-05-13 17:29:23 +02:00
lib s390/xor: optimized xor routing using the XC instruction 2016-02-23 08:56:17 +01:00
mm Miscellaneous bugfixes. ARM and s390 are new from the merge window, 2016-04-05 16:16:00 -07:00
net bpf: move clearing of A/X into classic to eBPF migration prologue 2015-12-18 16:04:51 -05:00
numa s390/numa: move numa_init_late() from device to arch_initcall 2016-01-26 12:45:24 +01:00
oprofile s390/oprofile: add z13/z13s model numbers 2016-02-24 12:18:10 +01:00
pci Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2016-04-01 07:15:54 -05:00
tools s390/facilities: add helper tool to generate facility lists 2015-12-18 14:59:20 +01:00
defconfig s390/configs: update default configurations 2016-01-11 13:01:28 +01:00
Kbuild s390/numa: add core infrastructure 2015-08-03 18:40:25 +02:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2016-04-01 07:15:54 -05:00
Kconfig.debug arch: consolidate CONFIG_STRICT_DEVM in lib/Kconfig.debug 2016-01-09 06:30:49 -08:00
Makefile s390/facilities: add helper tool to generate facility lists 2015-12-18 14:59:20 +01:00