linux-next/virt/kvm
Parshuram Sangle aeb1b22a3a KVM: Enable halt polling shrink parameter by default
Default halt_poll_ns_shrink value of 0 always resets polling interval
to 0 on an un-successful poll where vcpu wakeup is not received. This is
mostly to avoid pointless polling for more number of shorter intervals. But
disabled shrink assumes vcpu wakeup is less likely to be received in
subsequent shorter polling intervals. Another side effect of 0 shrink value
is that, even on a successful poll if total block time was greater than
current polling interval, the polling interval starts over from 0 instead
of shrinking by a factor.

Enabling shrink with value of 2 allows the polling interval to gradually
decrement in case of un-successful poll events as well. This gives a fair
chance for successful polling events in subsequent polling intervals rather
than resetting it to 0 and starting over from grow_start.

Below kvm stat log snippet shows interleaved growth and shrinking of
polling interval:
87162647182125: kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 10000 (grow 0)
87162647637763: kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 20000 (grow 10000)
87162649627943: kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 40000 (grow 20000)
87162650892407: kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 20000 (shrink 40000)
87162651540378: kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 40000 (grow 20000)
87162652276768: kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 20000 (shrink 40000)
87162652515037: kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 40000 (grow 20000)
87162653383787: kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 20000 (shrink 40000)
87162653627670: kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 10000 (shrink 20000)
87162653796321: kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 20000 (grow 10000)
87162656171645: kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 10000 (shrink 20000)
87162661607487: kvm_halt_poll_ns: vcpu 0: halt_poll_ns 0 (shrink 10000)

Having both grow and shrink enabled creates a balance in polling interval
growth and shrink behavior. Tests show improved successful polling attempt
ratio which contribute to VM performance. Power penalty is quite negligible
as shrunk polling intervals create bursts of very short durations.

Performance assessment results show 3-6% improvements in CPU+GPU, Memory
and Storage Android VM workloads whereas 5-9% improvement in average FPS of
gaming VM workloads.

Power penalty is below 1% where host OS is either idle or running a
native workload having 2 VMs enabled. CPU/GPU intensive gaming workloads
as well do not show any increased power overhead with shrink enabled.

Co-developed-by: Rajendran Jaishankar <jaishankar.rajendran@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajendran Jaishankar <jaishankar.rajendran@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Parshuram Sangle <parshuram.sangle@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231102154628.2120-2-parshuram.sangle@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2024-06-03 08:49:10 -07:00
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async_pf.c KVM: Nullify async #PF worker's "apf" pointer as soon as it might be freed 2024-02-06 11:04:58 -08:00
async_pf.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 504 2019-06-19 17:09:56 +02:00
binary_stats.c KVM: stats: remove dead stores 2021-08-13 03:35:15 -04:00
coalesced_mmio.c KVM: destruct kvm_io_device while unregistering it from kvm_io_bus 2023-06-13 14:18:09 -07:00
coalesced_mmio.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
dirty_ring.c KVM: Allow arch code to track number of memslot address spaces per VM 2023-11-14 08:01:05 -05:00
eventfd.c Generic: 2024-01-17 13:03:37 -08:00
guest_memfd.c Generic: 2024-01-17 13:03:37 -08:00
irqchip.c KVM: replace direct irq.h inclusion 2022-11-09 12:31:37 -05:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'kvm-kconfig' 2024-02-08 08:47:51 -05:00
kvm_main.c KVM: Enable halt polling shrink parameter by default 2024-06-03 08:49:10 -07:00
kvm_mm.h KVM: Drop unused @may_block param from gfn_to_pfn_cache_invalidate_start() 2024-04-11 12:58:53 -07:00
Makefile.kvm KVM: Add KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD ioctl() for guest-specific backing memory 2023-11-14 08:01:03 -05:00
pfncache.c KVM: Drop unused @may_block param from gfn_to_pfn_cache_invalidate_start() 2024-04-11 12:58:53 -07:00
vfio.c KVM: Treat the device list as an rculist 2024-04-25 13:19:55 +01:00
vfio.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00