Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Gang scheduling in CFS

[Avi Kivity]

On 01/04/2012 04:56 PM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> * Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> [2012-01-04 16:41:58]:
>
> > > Here are some observation related to Baseline-only(8vm case)
> > >
> > >               | ple_gap=128 | ple_gap=64 | ple_gap=256 | ple_window=2048
> > > --------------+-------------+------------+-------------+----------------
> > > EbzyRecords/s |    2247.50  |    2132.75 |    2086.25  |      1835.62
> > > PauseExits    | 7928154.00  | 6696342.00 | 7365999.00  |  50319582.00
> > >
> > > With ple_window = 2048, PauseExits is more than 6times the default case
> > 
> > So it looks like the default is optimal, at least wrt the cases you
> > tested and your test workload.
>
> The default case still lags considerably behind the results we are seeing with
> gang scheduling. One more interesting data point would be to see how
> many PLE exits we are seeing when the vcpu is spinning in
> flush_tlb_others_ipi(). Is there any easy way to determine that?
>

You could get an exit trace (trace-cmd -e kvm:kvm_exit) and filter on
PLE exits; the trace contains the guest %rip, so you could match it
against flush_tlb_others_ipi().

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