KVM: halt_polling: provide a way to qualify wakeups during poll

Some wakeups should not be considered a sucessful poll. For example on
s390 I/O interrupts are usually floating, which means that _ALL_ CPUs
would be considered runnable - letting all vCPUs poll all the time for
transactional like workload, even if one vCPU would be enough.
This can result in huge CPU usage for large guests.
This patch lets architectures provide a way to qualify wakeups if they
should be considered a good/bad wakeups in regard to polls.

For s390 the implementation will fence of halt polling for anything but
known good, single vCPU events. The s390 implementation for floating
interrupts does a wakeup for one vCPU, but the interrupt will be delivered
by whatever CPU checks first for a pending interrupt. We prefer the
woken up CPU by marking the poll of this CPU as "good" poll.
This code will also mark several other wakeup reasons like IPI or
expired timers as "good". This will of course also mark some events as
not sucessful. As  KVM on z runs always as a 2nd level hypervisor,
we prefer to not poll, unless we are really sure, though.

This patch successfully limits the CPU usage for cases like uperf 1byte
transactional ping pong workload or wakeup heavy workload like OLTP
while still providing a proper speedup.

This also introduced a new vcpu stat "halt_poll_no_tuning" that marks
wakeups that are considered not good for polling.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> (for an earlier version)
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
[Rename config symbol. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 942b8f6bf35b..9a37a1044032 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_stat {
 	u32 flush_dcache_exits;
 	u32 halt_successful_poll;
 	u32 halt_attempted_poll;
+	u32 halt_poll_invalid;
 	u32 halt_wakeup;
 };
 
@@ -812,5 +813,6 @@ static inline void kvm_arch_vcpu_uninit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) {}
 static inline void kvm_arch_sched_in(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu) {}
 static inline void kvm_arch_vcpu_blocking(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) {}
 static inline void kvm_arch_vcpu_unblocking(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) {}
+static inline void kvm_arch_vcpu_block_finish(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) {}
 
 #endif /* __MIPS_KVM_HOST_H__ */
diff --git a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
index 23b209463238..dc052fb5c7a2 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ struct kvm_stats_debugfs_item debugfs_entries[] = {
 	{ "flush_dcache", VCPU_STAT(flush_dcache_exits), KVM_STAT_VCPU },
 	{ "halt_successful_poll", VCPU_STAT(halt_successful_poll), KVM_STAT_VCPU },
 	{ "halt_attempted_poll", VCPU_STAT(halt_attempted_poll), KVM_STAT_VCPU },
+	{ "halt_poll_invalid", VCPU_STAT(halt_poll_invalid), KVM_STAT_VCPU },
 	{ "halt_wakeup",  VCPU_STAT(halt_wakeup),	 KVM_STAT_VCPU },
 	{NULL}
 };