Before commit 1328edca4a ("cpuidle-haltpoll: Enable kvm guest polling
when dedicated physical CPUs are available") the cpuidle-haltpoll driver
could also be used in scenarios when the host does not advertise the
KVM_HINTS_REALTIME hint.
While the behavior introduced by the aforementioned commit makes sense as
the default there are cases where the old behavior is desired, for example,
when other kernel changes triggered by presence by this hint are unwanted,
for some workloads where the latency benefit from polling overweights the
loss from idle CPU capacity that otherwise would be available, or just when
running under older Qemu versions that lack this hint.
Let's provide a typical "force" module parameter that allows restoring the
old behavior.
Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Currenly haltpoll isn't aware of the 'idle=' override, the priority is
'idle=poll' > haltpoll > 'idle=halt'. When 'idle=poll' is used, cpuidle
driver is bypassed but current_driver in sys still shows 'haltpoll'.
When 'idle=halt' is used, haltpoll takes precedence and makes
'idle=halt' have no effect.
Add a check to prevent the haltpoll driver from loading if 'idle=' is
present.
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Co-developed-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
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Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The downside of guest side polling is that polling is performed even
with other runnable tasks in the host. However, even if poll in kvm
can aware whether or not other runnable tasks in the same pCPU, it
can still incur extra overhead in over-subscribe scenario. Now we can
just enable guest polling when dedicated pCPUs are available.
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
cpuidle-haltpoll can be built as a module to allow optional late load.
Given we are setting @owner to THIS_MODULE, cpuidle will attempt to grab a
module reference every time a cpuidle_device is registered -- so
essentially all online cpus get a reference.
This prevents for the module to be unloaded later, which makes the
module_exit callback entirely unused. Thus remove the @owner and allow
module to be unloaded.
Fixes: fa86ee90eb ("add cpuidle-haltpoll driver")
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
When a user loads cpuidle-haltpoll on a non KVM guest the module will
successfully load, even though idle driver registration didn't take
place.
We should instead return -ENODEV signaling the user that the driver can't
be loaded, like other error paths in haltpoll_init(). An example of such
error paths is when we return -EBUSY when attempting to register an idle
driver when it had one already (e.g. intel_idle loads at boot and then we
attempt to insert module cpuidle-haltpoll).
Fixes: fa86ee90eb ("add cpuidle-haltpoll driver")
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Right now, guest current governors have the following ratings:
* ladder -> 10
* teo -> 19
* menu -> 20
* haltpoll -> 21
* ladder + nohz=off -> 25
haltpoll governor got introduced and it is now the default governor given
its highest rating -- with ladder+nohz being the exception -- regardless of
idle driver in the guest. An example of an undesirable case is x86 KVM
guests with MWAIT which have intel_idle registered first, and consequently
will have haltpoll be used as governor which would get limited to a poll
state and state 1 and the other states wouldn't get used.
To keep the previous defaults we decrease rating of governor to 9 (below
current lowest rating) and thus rely on @governor switch on
cpuidle_register_driver() to tie in haltpoll idle driver and governor
together.
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
When cpus != maxcpus cpuidle-haltpoll will fail to register all vcpus
past the online ones and thus fail to register the idle driver.
This is because cpuidle_add_sysfs() will return with -ENODEV as a
consequence from get_cpu_device() return no device for a non-existing
CPU.
Instead switch to cpuidle_register_driver() and manually register each
of the present cpus through cpuhp_setup_state() callbacks and future
ones that get onlined or offlined. This mimmics similar logic that
intel_idle does.
Fixes: fa86ee90eb ("add cpuidle-haltpoll driver")
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
When performing guest side polling, it is not necessary to
also perform host side polling.
So disable host side polling, via the new MSR interface,
when loading cpuidle-haltpoll driver.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Add a cpuidle driver that calls the architecture default_idle routine.
To be used in conjunction with the haltpoll governor.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
