KVM: X86: Choose qspinlock when dedicated physical CPUs are available
authorWanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 01:05:41 +0000 (09:05 +0800)
committerRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Tue, 6 Mar 2018 17:40:45 +0000 (18:40 +0100)
commitb2798ba0b8769b42f00899b44a538b5fcecb480d
treed62c2b5aadf73a3f60523e8cd65444c7605c3808
parenta4429e53c9b3082b05e51224c3d58dbdd39306c5
KVM: X86: Choose qspinlock when dedicated physical CPUs are available

Waiman Long mentioned that:
> Generally speaking, unfair lock performs well for VMs with a small
> number of vCPUs. Native qspinlock may perform better than pvqspinlock
> if there is vCPU pinning and there is no vCPU over-commitment.

This patch uses the KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED performance hint, which is
provided by the hypervisor admin, to choose the qspinlock algorithm
when a dedicated physical CPU is available.

PV_DEDICATED = 1, PV_UNHALT = anything: default is qspinlock
PV_DEDICATED = 0, PV_UNHALT = 1: default is Hybrid PV queued/unfair lock
PV_DEDICATED = 0, PV_UNHALT = 0: default is tas

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c