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authorParshuram Sangle <parshuram.sangle@intel.com>2023-11-02 21:16:27 +0530
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2024-06-03 08:49:10 -0700
commitaeb1b22a3ac8e94c791f06f16e921384794771fa (patch)
tree5d76ddf7ccd795532051d066c1f05de7d80743d0 /virt/kvm
parent96a02b9fa95108269cd0cd012f091f86bd6f41a4 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt/kvm')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index fabc3e287e56..f4f5a435b225 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ unsigned int halt_poll_ns_grow_start = 10000; /* 10us */
module_param(halt_poll_ns_grow_start, uint, 0644);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(halt_poll_ns_grow_start);
-/* Default resets per-vcpu halt_poll_ns . */
-unsigned int halt_poll_ns_shrink;
+/* Default halves per-vcpu halt_poll_ns. */
+unsigned int halt_poll_ns_shrink = 2;
module_param(halt_poll_ns_shrink, uint, 0644);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(halt_poll_ns_shrink);