1. 06 May, 2014 5 commits
  2. 05 May, 2014 2 commits
    • Ulrich Obergfell's avatar
      KVM: x86: improve the usability of the 'kvm_pio' tracepoint · 1171903d
      Ulrich Obergfell authored
      This patch moves the 'kvm_pio' tracepoint to emulator_pio_in_emulated()
      and emulator_pio_out_emulated(), and it adds an argument (a pointer to
      the 'pio_data'). A single 8-bit or 16-bit or 32-bit data item is fetched
      from 'pio_data' (depending on 'size'), and the value is included in the
      trace record ('val'). If 'count' is greater than one, this is indicated
      by the string "(...)" in the trace output.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarUlrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      1171903d
    • Christian Borntraeger's avatar
      kvm/irqchip: Speed up KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING · 719d93cd
      Christian Borntraeger authored
      When starting lots of dataplane devices the bootup takes very long on
      Christian's s390 with irqfd patches. With larger setups he is even
      able to trigger some timeouts in some components.  Turns out that the
      KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING ioctl takes very long (strace claims up to 0.1 sec)
      when having multiple CPUs.  This is caused by the  synchronize_rcu and
      the HZ=100 of s390.  By changing the code to use a private srcu we can
      speed things up.  This patch reduces the boot time till mounting root
      from 8 to 2 seconds on my s390 guest with 100 disks.
      
      Uses of hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_add_head_rcu, hlist_del_init_rcu
      are fine because they do not have lockdep checks (hlist_for_each_entry_rcu
      uses rcu_dereference_raw rather than rcu_dereference, and write-sides
      do not do rcu lockdep at all).
      
      Note that we're hardly relying on the "sleepable" part of srcu.  We just
      want SRCU's faster detection of grace periods.
      
      Testing was done by Andrew Theurer using netperf tests STREAM, MAERTS
      and RR.  The difference between results "before" and "after" the patch
      has mean -0.2% and standard deviation 0.6%.  Using a paired t-test on the
      data points says that there is a 2.5% probability that the patch is the
      cause of the performance difference (rather than a random fluctuation).
      
      (Restricting the t-test to RR, which is the most likely to be affected,
      changes the numbers to respectively -0.3% mean, 0.7% stdev, and 8%
      probability that the numbers actually say something about the patch.
      The probability increases mostly because there are fewer data points).
      
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
      Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> # s390
      Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      719d93cd
  3. 30 Apr, 2014 1 commit
    • Paolo Bonzini's avatar
      Merge tag 'kvm-s390-20140429' of... · 57b5981c
      Paolo Bonzini authored
      Merge tag 'kvm-s390-20140429' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into kvm-next
      
      1. Guest handling fixes
      The handling of MVPG, PFMF and Test Block is fixed to better follow
      the architecture. None of these fixes is critical for any current
      Linux guests, but let's play safe.
      
      2. Optimization for single CPU guests
      We can enable the IBS facility if only one VCPU is running (!STOPPED
      state). We also enable this optimization for guest > 1 VCPU as soon
      as all but one VCPU is in stopped state. Thus will help guests that
      have tools like cpuplugd (from s390-utils) that do dynamic offline/
      online of CPUs.
      
      3. NOTES
      There is one non-s390 change in include/linux/kvm_host.h that
      introduces 2 defines for VCPU requests:
      define KVM_REQ_ENABLE_IBS        23
      define KVM_REQ_DISABLE_IBS       24
      57b5981c
  4. 29 Apr, 2014 7 commits
  5. 28 Apr, 2014 2 commits
  6. 23 Apr, 2014 9 commits
  7. 22 Apr, 2014 14 commits