kernel.git/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c, branch linux-4.3.y

KVM: disable halt_poll_ns as default for s390x

2015-09-25T08:31:30Z

We observed some performance degradation on s390x with dynamic halt polling. Until we can provide a proper fix, let's enable halt_poll_ns as default only for supported architectures. Architectures are now free to set their own halt_poll_ns default value. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: add halt_attempted_poll to VCPU stats

2015-09-16T10:17:00Z

This new statistic can help diagnosing VCPUs that, for any reason, trigger bad behavior of halt_poll_ns autotuning. For example, say halt_poll_ns = 480000, and wakeups are spaced exactly like 479us, 481us, 479us, 481us. Then KVM always fails polling and wastes 10+20+40+80+160+320+480 = 1110 microseconds out of every 479+481+479+481+479+481+479 = 3359 microseconds. The VCPU then is consuming about 30% more CPU than it would use without polling. This would show as an abnormally high number of attempted polling compared to the successful polls. Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

kvm: fix zero length mmio searching

2015-09-15T14:59:46Z

Currently, if we had a zero length mmio eventfd assigned on KVM_MMIO_BUS. It will never be found by kvm_io_bus_cmp() since it always compares the kvm_io_range() with the length that guest wrote. This will cause e.g for vhost, kick will be trapped by qemu userspace instead of vhost. Fixing this by using zero length if an iodevice is zero length. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Gleb Natapov Cc: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: fix polling for guest halt continued even if disable it

2015-09-14T15:07:04Z

If there is already some polling ongoing, it's impossible to disable the polling, since as soon as somebody sets halt_poll_ns to 0, polling will never stop, as grow and shrink are only handled if halt_poll_ns is != 0. This patch fix it by reset vcpu->halt_poll_ns in order to stop polling when polling is disabled. Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-09-11T01:19:42Z

Merge third patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - even more of the rest of MM - lib/ updates - checkpatch updates - small changes to a few scruffy filesystems - kmod fixes/cleanups - kexec updates - a dma-mapping cleanup series from hch * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (81 commits) dma-mapping: consolidate dma_set_mask dma-mapping: consolidate dma_supported dma-mapping: cosolidate dma_mapping_error dma-mapping: consolidate dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent dma-mapping: consolidate dma_{alloc,free}_{attrs,coherent} mm: use vma_is_anonymous() in create_huge_pmd() and wp_huge_pmd() mm: make sure all file VMAs have ->vm_ops set mm, mpx: add "vm_flags_t vm_flags" arg to do_mmap_pgoff() mm: mark most vm_operations_struct const namei: fix warning while make xmldocs caused by namei.c ipc: convert invalid scenarios to use WARN_ON zlib_deflate/deftree: remove bi_reverse() lib/decompress_unlzma: Do a NULL check for pointer lib/decompressors: use real out buf size for gunzip with kernel fs/affs: make root lookup from blkdev logical size sysctl: fix int -> unsigned long assignments in INT_MIN case kexec: export KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE to vmcoreinfo kexec: align crash_notes allocation to make it be inside one physical page kexec: remove unnecessary test in kimage_alloc_crash_control_pages() kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code ...

mmu-notifier: add clear_young callback

2015-09-10T20:29:01Z

In the scope of the idle memory tracking feature, which is introduced by the following patch, we need to clear the referenced/accessed bit not only in primary, but also in secondary ptes. The latter is required in order to estimate wss of KVM VMs. At the same time we want to avoid flushing tlb, because it is quite expensive and it won't really affect the final result. Currently, there is no function for clearing pte young bit that would meet our requirements, so this patch introduces one. To achieve that we have to add a new mmu-notifier callback, clear_young, since there is no method for testing-and-clearing a secondary pte w/o flushing tlb. The new method is not mandatory and currently only implemented by KVM. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Raghavendra K T Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

KVM: trace kvm_halt_poll_ns grow/shrink

2015-09-06T14:33:14Z

Tracepoint for dynamic halt_pool_ns, fired on every potential change. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: dynamic halt-polling

2015-09-06T14:32:43Z

There is a downside of always-poll since poll is still happened for idle vCPUs which can waste cpu usage. This patchset add the ability to adjust halt_poll_ns dynamically, to grow halt_poll_ns when shot halt is detected, and to shrink halt_poll_ns when long halt is detected. There are two new kernel parameters for changing the halt_poll_ns: halt_poll_ns_grow and halt_poll_ns_shrink. no-poll always-poll dynamic-poll ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Idle (nohz) vCPU %c0 0.15% 0.3% 0.2% Idle (250HZ) vCPU %c0 1.1% 4.6%~14% 1.2% TCP_RR latency 34us 27us 26.7us "Idle (X) vCPU %c0" is the percent of time the physical cpu spent in c0 over 60 seconds (each vCPU is pinned to a pCPU). (nohz) means the guest was tickless. (250HZ) means the guest was ticking at 250HZ. The big win is with ticking operating systems. Running the linux guest with nohz=off (and HZ=250), we save 3.4%~12.8% CPUs/second and get close to no-polling overhead levels by using the dynamic-poll. The savings should be even higher for higher frequency ticks. Suggested-by: David Matlack Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li [Simplify the patch. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: make halt_poll_ns per-vCPU

2015-09-06T14:27:10Z

Change halt_poll_ns into per-VCPU variable, seeded from module parameter, to allow greater flexibility. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: document memory barriers for kvm->vcpus/kvm->online_vcpus

2015-07-30T14:02:54Z

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini