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Wanpeng Li 89340d0935 Revert "locking/pvqspinlock: Don't wait if vCPU is preempted"
This patch reverts commit 75437bb304 (locking/pvqspinlock: Don't
wait if vCPU is preempted).  A large performance regression was caused
by this commit.  on over-subscription scenarios.

The test was run on a Xeon Skylake box, 2 sockets, 40 cores, 80 threads,
with three VMs of 80 vCPUs each.  The score of ebizzy -M is reduced from
13000-14000 records/s to 1700-1800 records/s:

          Host                Guest                score

vanilla w/o kvm optimizations     upstream    1700-1800 records/s
vanilla w/o kvm optimizations     revert      13000-14000 records/s
vanilla w/ kvm optimizations      upstream    4500-5000 records/s
vanilla w/ kvm optimizations      revert      14000-15500 records/s

Exit from aggressive wait-early mechanism can result in premature yield
and extra scheduling latency.

Actually, only 6% of wait_early events are caused by vcpu_is_preempted()
being true.  However, when one vCPU voluntarily releases its vCPU, all
the subsequently waiters in the queue will do the same and the cascading
effect leads to bad performance.

kvm optimizations:
[1] commit d73eb57b80 (KVM: Boost vCPUs that are delivering interrupts)
[2] commit 266e85a5ec (KVM: X86: Boost queue head vCPU to mitigate lock waiter preemption)

Tested-by: loobinliu@tencent.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: loobinliu@tencent.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 75437bb304 (locking/pvqspinlock: Don't wait if vCPU is preempted)
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-09-25 10:22:37 +02:00
arch kvm: nvmx: limit atomic switch MSRs 2019-09-24 16:32:15 +02:00
block dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.