KVM: Choose better candidate for directed yield
Currently, on a large vcpu guests, there is a high probability of
yielding to the same vcpu who had recently done a pause-loop exit or
cpu relax intercepted. Such a yield can lead to the vcpu spinning
again and hence degrade the performance.
The patchset keeps track of the pause loop exit/cpu relax interception
and gives chance to a vcpu which:
(a) Has not done pause loop exit or cpu relax intercepted at all
(probably he is preempted lock-holder)
(b) Was skipped in last iteration because it did pause loop exit or
cpu relax intercepted, and probably has become eligible now
(next eligible lock holder)
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> # on s390x
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 361b36f..74a78d0 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -931,6 +931,11 @@
{
}
+static inline bool kvm_vcpu_eligible_for_directed_yield(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ return true;
+}
+
#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT */
#endif