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KVM: X86: Choose qspinlock when dedicated physical CPUs are available

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Waiman Long mentioned that:
> Generally speaking, unfair lock performs well for VMs with a small
> number of vCPUs. Native qspinlock may perform better than pvqspinlock
> if there is vCPU pinning and there is no vCPU over-commitment.

This patch uses the KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED performance hint, which is
provided by the hypervisor admin, to choose the qspinlock algorithm
when a dedicated physical CPU is available.

PV_DEDICATED = 1, PV_UNHALT = anything: default is qspinlock
PV_DEDICATED = 0, PV_UNHALT = 1: default is Hybrid PV queued/unfair lock
PV_DEDICATED = 0, PV_UNHALT = 0: default is tas

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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Wanpeng Li 2018-02-13 09:05:41 +08:00 committed by Radim Krčmář
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commit b2798ba0b8
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@ -735,6 +735,11 @@ void __init kvm_spinlock_init(void)
if (!kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT))
return;
if (kvm_para_has_hint(KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED)) {
static_branch_disable(&virt_spin_lock_key);
return;
}
__pv_init_lock_hash();
pv_lock_ops.queued_spin_lock_slowpath = __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath;
pv_lock_ops.queued_spin_unlock = PV_CALLEE_SAVE(__pv_queued_spin_unlock);