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Remote TLB flush does a busy wait which is fine in bare-metal
scenario. But with-in the guest, the vcpus might have been pre-empted or
blocked. In this scenario, the initator vcpu would end up busy-waiting
for a long amount of time; it also consumes CPU unnecessarily to wake
up the target of the shootdown.
This patch set adds support for KVM's new paravirtualized TLB flush;
remote TLB flush does not wait for vcpus that are sleeping, instead
KVM will flush the TLB as soon as the vCPU starts running again.
The improvement is clearly visible when the host is overcommitted; in this
case, the PV TLB flush (in addition to avoiding the wait on the main CPU)
prevents preempted vCPUs from stealing precious execution time from the
running ones.
Testing on a Xeon Gold 6142 2.6GHz 2 sockets, 32 cores, 64 threads,
so 64 pCPUs, and each VM is 64 vCPUs.
ebizzy -M
vanilla optimized boost
1VM 46799 48670 4%
2VM 23962 42691 78%
3VM 16152 37539 132%
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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65 lines
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KVM CPUID bits
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Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, Red Hat Inc, 2010
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A guest running on a kvm host, can check some of its features using
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cpuid. This is not always guaranteed to work, since userspace can
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mask-out some, or even all KVM-related cpuid features before launching
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a guest.
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KVM cpuid functions are:
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function: KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE (0x40000000)
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returns : eax = 0x40000001,
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ebx = 0x4b4d564b,
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ecx = 0x564b4d56,
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edx = 0x4d.
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Note that this value in ebx, ecx and edx corresponds to the string "KVMKVMKVM".
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The value in eax corresponds to the maximum cpuid function present in this leaf,
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and will be updated if more functions are added in the future.
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Note also that old hosts set eax value to 0x0. This should
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be interpreted as if the value was 0x40000001.
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This function queries the presence of KVM cpuid leafs.
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function: define KVM_CPUID_FEATURES (0x40000001)
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returns : ebx, ecx, edx = 0
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eax = and OR'ed group of (1 << flag), where each flags is:
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flag || value || meaning
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=============================================================================
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KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE || 0 || kvmclock available at msrs
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|| || 0x11 and 0x12.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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KVM_FEATURE_NOP_IO_DELAY || 1 || not necessary to perform delays
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|| || on PIO operations.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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KVM_FEATURE_MMU_OP || 2 || deprecated.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE2 || 3 || kvmclock available at msrs
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|| || 0x4b564d00 and 0x4b564d01
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF || 4 || async pf can be enabled by
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|| || writing to msr 0x4b564d02
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME || 5 || steal time can be enabled by
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|| || writing to msr 0x4b564d03.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI || 6 || paravirtualized end of interrupt
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|| || handler can be enabled by writing
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|| || to msr 0x4b564d04.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT || 7 || guest checks this feature bit
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|| || before enabling paravirtualized
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|| || spinlock support.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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KVM_FEATURE_PV_TLB_FLUSH || 9 || guest checks this feature bit
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|| || before enabling paravirtualized
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|| || tlb flush.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT || 24 || host will warn if no guest-side
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|| || per-cpu warps are expected in
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|| || kvmclock.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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