Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks

From: Raghavendra K T
Date: Mon May 07 2012 - 06:59:21 EST


On 05/07/2012 02:02 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 05/07/2012 11:29 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
This is looking pretty good and complete now - any objections
from anyone to trying this out in a separate x86 topic tree?

No objections, instead an

Acked-by: Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx>


Thank you.

Here is a benchmark result with the patches.

3 guests with 8VCPU, 8GB RAM, 1 used for kernbench
(kernbench -f -H -M -o 20) other for cpuhog (shell script while
true with an instruction)

unpinned scenario
1x: no hogs
2x: 8hogs in one guest
3x: 8hogs each in two guest

BASE: 3.4-rc4 vanilla with CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCK=n
BASE+patch: 3.4-rc4 + debugfs + pv patches with CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCK=y

Machine : IBM xSeries with Intel(R) Xeon(R) x5570 2.93GHz CPU (Non PLE) with 8 core , 64GB RAM

(Less is better. Below is time elapsed in sec for x86_64_defconfig (3+3 runs)).

BASE BASE+patch %improvement
mean (sd) mean (sd)
case 1x: 66.0566 (74.0304) 61.3233 (68.8299) 7.16552
case 2x: 1253.2 (1795.74) 131.606 (137.358) 89.4984
case 3x: 3431.04 (5297.26) 134.964 (149.861) 96.0664


Will be working on further analysis with other benchmarks (pgbench/sysbench/ebizzy...) and further optimization.

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