Re: 答复: [PATCH] KVM: Consider SMT idle status when halt polling

[Sean Christopherson]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021, Li,Rongqing wrote:
> > > > SMT siblings share caches and other hardware, halt polling will
> > > > degrade its sibling performance if its sibling is busy
> > >
> > > Do you have any real scenario benefits? As the polling nature, some
> > > cloud providers will configure to their preferred balance of cpu usage
> > > and performance, and other cloud providers for their NFV scenarios
> > > which are more sensitive to latency are vCPU and pCPU 1:1 pin，you
> > > destroy these setups.
> > >
> > >     Wanpeng
> > 
> 
> 
> Run a copy (single thread) Unixbench, with or without a busy poll program in
> its SMT sibling,  and Unixbench score can lower 1/3 with SMT busy polling
> program

Rather than disallowing halt-polling entirely, on x86 it should be sufficient to
simply have the hardware thread yield to its sibling(s) via PAUSE.  It probably
won't get back all performance, but I would expect it to be close. 

This compiles on all KVM architectures, and AFAICT the intended usage of
cpu_relax() is identical for all architectures.

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 6980dabe9df5..a07ecb3c67fb 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -3111,6 +3111,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
                                goto out;
                        }
                        poll_end = cur = ktime_get();
+                       cpu_relax();
                } while (kvm_vcpu_can_poll(cur, stop));
        }