[PATCH v4 0/5] implement vcpu preempted check

Pan Xinhui xinhui.pan at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Oct 19 21:20:11 AEDT 2016


change from v3:
	add x86 vcpu preempted check patch
change from v2:
	no code change, fix typos, update some comments
change from v1:
	a simplier definition of default vcpu_is_preempted
	skip mahcine type check on ppc, and add config. remove dedicated macro.
	add one patch to drop overload of rwsem_spin_on_owner and mutex_spin_on_owner. 
	add more comments
	thanks boqun and Peter's suggestion.

This patch set aims to fix lock holder preemption issues.

test-case:
perf record -a perf bench sched messaging -g 400 -p && perf report

18.09%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] osq_lock
12.28%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] rwsem_spin_on_owner
 5.27%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] mutex_unlock
 3.89%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] wait_consider_task
 3.64%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] _raw_write_lock_irq
 3.41%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] mutex_spin_on_owner.is
 2.49%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] system_call

We introduce interface bool vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu) and use it in some spin
loops of osq_lock, rwsem_spin_on_owner and mutex_spin_on_owner.
These spin_on_onwer variant also cause rcu stall before we apply this patch set

We also have observed some performace improvements.

PPC test result:

1 copy - 0.94%
2 copy - 7.17%
4 copy - 11.9%
8 copy -  3.04%
16 copy - 15.11%

details below:
Without patch:

1 copy - File Write 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks      2188223.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 1 samples)
2 copy - File Write 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks      1804433.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 1 samples)
4 copy - File Write 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks      1237257.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 1 samples)
8 copy - File Write 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks      1032658.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 1 samples)
16 copy - File Write 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       768000.0 KBps  (30.1 s, 1 samples)

With patch: 

1 copy - File Write 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks      2209189.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 1 samples)
2 copy - File Write 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks      1943816.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 1 samples)
4 copy - File Write 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks      1405591.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 1 samples)
8 copy - File Write 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks      1065080.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 1 samples)
16 copy - File Write 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       904762.0 KBps  (30.0 s, 1 samples)

X86 test result:
	test-case			after-patch	  before-patch
Execl Throughput                       |    18307.9 lps  |    11701.6 lps 
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks  |  1352407.3 KBps |   790418.9 KBps
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks    |   367555.6 KBps |   222867.7 KBps
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks  |  3675649.7 KBps |  1780614.4 KBps
Pipe Throughput                        | 11872208.7 lps  | 11855628.9 lps 
Pipe-based Context Switching           |  1495126.5 lps  |  1490533.9 lps 
Process Creation                       |    29881.2 lps  |    28572.8 lps 
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)           |    23224.3 lpm  |    22607.4 lpm 
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)           |     3531.4 lpm  |     3211.9 lpm 
System Call Overhead                   | 10385653.0 lps  | 10419979.0 lps 

Pan Xinhui (5):
  kernel/sched: introduce vcpu preempted check interface
  locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq_lock()
  kernel/locking: Drop the overload of {mutex,rwsem}_spin_on_owner
  powerpc/spinlock: support vcpu preempted check
  x86, kvm: support vcpu preempted check

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h   |  8 ++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h |  6 ++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h       |  8 ++++++++
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h  |  3 ++-
 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c                 | 11 +++++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c            | 11 +++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                    | 12 ++++++++++++
 include/linux/sched.h                 | 12 ++++++++++++
 kernel/locking/mutex.c                | 15 +++++++++++++--
 kernel/locking/osq_lock.c             | 10 +++++++++-
 kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c           | 16 +++++++++++++---
 11 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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2.4.11



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