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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2015-09-15 19:27:57 +0300
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2015-09-16 13:17:00 +0300
commit62bea5bff486644ecf363fe8a1a2f6f32c614a49 (patch)
tree774180da187dabef4995896aec803248b075a36d /arch/mips
parent8f4216c7d28976f7ec1b2bcbfa0a9f787133c45e (diff)
downloadlinux-62bea5bff486644ecf363fe8a1a2f6f32c614a49.tar.xz
KVM: add halt_attempted_poll to VCPU stats
This new statistic can help diagnosing VCPUs that, for any reason, trigger bad behavior of halt_poll_ns autotuning. For example, say halt_poll_ns = 480000, and wakeups are spaced exactly like 479us, 481us, 479us, 481us. Then KVM always fails polling and wastes 10+20+40+80+160+320+480 = 1110 microseconds out of every 479+481+479+481+479+481+479 = 3359 microseconds. The VCPU then is consuming about 30% more CPU than it would use without polling. This would show as an abnormally high number of attempted polling compared to the successful polls. Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com< Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h1
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/kvm/mips.c1
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index e8c8d9d0c45f..3a54dbca9f7e 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_stat {
u32 msa_disabled_exits;
u32 flush_dcache_exits;
u32 halt_successful_poll;
+ u32 halt_attempted_poll;
u32 halt_wakeup;
};
diff --git a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
index cd4c129ce743..49ff3bfc007e 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ struct kvm_stats_debugfs_item debugfs_entries[] = {
{ "msa_disabled", VCPU_STAT(msa_disabled_exits), KVM_STAT_VCPU },
{ "flush_dcache", VCPU_STAT(flush_dcache_exits), KVM_STAT_VCPU },
{ "halt_successful_poll", VCPU_STAT(halt_successful_poll), KVM_STAT_VCPU },
+ { "halt_attempted_poll", VCPU_STAT(halt_attempted_poll), KVM_STAT_VCPU },
{ "halt_wakeup", VCPU_STAT(halt_wakeup), KVM_STAT_VCPU },
{NULL}
};