From: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com>,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
mikey@neuling.org, paulus@ozlabs.org, sbhat@linux.ibm.com,
gautam@linux.ibm.com, kconsul@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
amachhiw@linux.vnet.ibm.com, David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Subject: [PATCH v2] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV nestedv2: Cancel pending DEC exception
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:27:29 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240415035731.103097-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
This reverts commit 180c6b072bf3 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV nestedv2: Do not
cancel pending decrementer exception") [1] which prevented canceling a
pending HDEC exception for nestedv2 KVM guests. It was done to avoid
overhead of a H_GUEST_GET_STATE hcall to read the 'DEC expiry TB' register
which was higher compared to handling extra decrementer exceptions.
However recent benchmarks indicate that overhead of not handling 'DECR'
expiry for Nested KVM Guest(L2) is higher and results in much larger exits
to Pseries Host(L1) as indicated by the Unixbench-arithoh bench[2]
Metric | Current upstream | Revert [1] | Difference %
========================================================================
arithoh-count (10) | 3244831634 | 3403089673 | +04.88%
kvm_hv:kvm_guest_exit | 513558 | 152441 | -70.32%
probe:kvmppc_gsb_recv | 28060 | 28110 | +00.18%
N=1
As indicated by the data above that reverting [1] results in substantial
reduction in number of L2->L1 exits with only slight increase in number of
H_GUEST_GET_STATE hcalls to read the value of 'DEC expiry TB'. This results
in an overall ~4% improvement of arithoh[2] throughput.
[1] commit 180c6b072bf3 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV nestedv2: Do not cancel pending decrementer exception")
[2] https://github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbench/
Fixes: 180c6b072bf3 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV nestedv2: Do not cancel pending decrementer exception")
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
---
Changelog:
Since v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240313072625.76804-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
* Updated/Corrected patch title and description
* Included data on test benchmark results for Unixbench-arithoh bench.
---
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 8e86eb577eb8..692a7c6f5fd9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -4857,7 +4857,7 @@ int kvmhv_run_single_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 time_limit,
* entering a nested guest in which case the decrementer is now owned
* by L2 and the L1 decrementer is provided in hdec_expires
*/
- if (!kvmhv_is_nestedv2() && kvmppc_core_pending_dec(vcpu) &&
+ if (kvmppc_core_pending_dec(vcpu) &&
((tb < kvmppc_dec_expires_host_tb(vcpu)) ||
(trap == BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_SYSCALL &&
kvmppc_get_gpr(vcpu, 3) == H_ENTER_NESTED)))
--
2.44.0
next reply other threads:[~2024-04-15 3:58 UTC|newest]
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2024-04-15 3:57 Vaibhav Jain [this message]
2024-04-15 12:27 ` [PATCH v2] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV nestedv2: Cancel pending DEC exception Michael Ellerman
2024-05-08 13:45 ` Michael Ellerman
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