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[PULL,11/63] KVM: PPC: e500mc: Enhance tlb invalidation condition on vcpu schedule

Message ID 1406884714-33099-12-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Alexander Graf Aug. 1, 2014, 9:17 a.m. UTC 
From: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>

On vcpu schedule, the condition checked for tlb pollution is too loose.
The tlb entries of a vcpu become polluted (vs stale) only when a different
vcpu within the same logical partition runs in-between. Optimize the tlb
invalidation condition keeping last_vcpu per logical partition id.

With the new invalidation condition, a guest shows 4% performance improvement
on P5020DS while running a memory stress application with the cpu oversubscribed,
the other guest running a cpu intensive workload.

Guest - old invalidation condition
  real 3.89
  user 3.87
  sys 0.01

Guest - enhanced invalidation condition
  real 3.75
  user 3.73
  sys 0.01

Host
  real 3.70
  user 1.85
  sys 0.00

The memory stress application accesses 4KB pages backed by 75% of available
TLB0 entries:

char foo[ENTRIES][4096] __attribute__ ((aligned (4096)));

int main()
{
	char bar;
	int i, j;

	for (i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++)
        	for (j = 0; j < ENTRIES; j++)
            		bar = foo[j][0];

	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
index 17e4562..690499d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@  void kvmppc_mmu_msr_notify(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 old_msr)
 {
 }
 
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_vcpu *, last_vcpu_on_cpu);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_vcpu *[KVMPPC_NR_LPIDS], last_vcpu_of_lpid);
 
 static void kvmppc_core_vcpu_load_e500mc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
 {
@@ -141,9 +141,9 @@  static void kvmppc_core_vcpu_load_e500mc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
 	mtspr(SPRN_GESR, vcpu->arch.shared->esr);
 
 	if (vcpu->arch.oldpir != mfspr(SPRN_PIR) ||
-	    __get_cpu_var(last_vcpu_on_cpu) != vcpu) {
+	    __get_cpu_var(last_vcpu_of_lpid)[vcpu->kvm->arch.lpid] != vcpu) {
 		kvmppc_e500_tlbil_all(vcpu_e500);
-		__get_cpu_var(last_vcpu_on_cpu) = vcpu;
+		__get_cpu_var(last_vcpu_of_lpid)[vcpu->kvm->arch.lpid] = vcpu;
 	}
 
 	kvmppc_load_guest_fp(vcpu);