[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v13 10/11] pvqspinlock, x86: Enable PV qspinlock for KVM
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 04:19:10PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > This patch adds the necessary KVM specific code to allow KVM to > support the CPU halting and kicking operations needed by the queue > spinlock PV code. > > Two KVM guests of 20 CPU cores (2 nodes) were created for performance > testing in one of the following three configurations: > 1) Only 1 VM is active > 2) Both VMs are active and they share the same 20 physical CPUs > (200% overcommit) > > The tests run included the disk workload of the AIM7 benchmark on > both ext4 and xfs RAM disks at 3000 users on a 3.17 based kernel. The > "ebizzy -m" test and futextest was was also run and its performance > data were recorded. With two VMs running, the "idle=poll" kernel > option was added to simulate a busy guest. If PV qspinlock is not > enabled, unfairlock will be used automically in a guest. What is the unfairlock? Isn't it just using a bytelock at this point? _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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