linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig
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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#
# KVM configuration
#
source "virt/kvm/Kconfig"
menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
def_bool y
prompt "KVM"
---help---
Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run other
operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
This option alone does not add any kernel code.
If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled.
if VIRTUALIZATION
config KVM
def_tristate y
prompt "Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support"
depends on HAVE_KVM
select PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
select ANON_INODES
select HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT
select HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD
select KVM_ASYNC_PF
select KVM_ASYNC_PF_SYNC
select HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP
select HAVE_KVM_IRQFD
select HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING
select HAVE_KVM_INVALID_WAKEUPS
select SRCU
select KVM_VFIO
---help---
Support hosting paravirtualized guest machines using the SIE
virtualization capability on the mainframe. This should work
on any 64bit machine.
This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
a character device node named /dev/kvm.
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called kvm.
If unsure, say N.
config KVM_S390_UCONTROL
bool "Userspace controlled virtual machines"
depends on KVM
---help---
Allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN users to create KVM virtual machines that are
controlled by userspace.
If unsure, say N.
# OK, it's a little counter-intuitive to do this, but it puts it neatly under
# the virtualization menu.
source drivers/vhost/Kconfig
endif # VIRTUALIZATION