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Re: [patch 0/3] KVM CPU frequency change hypercalls

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On Thursday, February 02, 2017 03:47:55 PM Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Implement KVM hypercalls for the guest
> to issue frequency changes.
> 
> Current situation with DPDK and frequency changes is as follows:
> An algorithm in the guest decides when to increase/decrease
> frequency based on the queue length of the device.
> 
> On the host, a power manager daemon is used to listen for
> frequency change requests (on another core) and issue these
> requests.
> 
> However frequency changes are performance sensitive events because:
> On a change from low load condition to max load condition,
> the frequency should be raised as soon as possible.
> Sending a virtio-serial notification to another pCPU,
> waiting for that pCPU to initiate an IPI to the requestor pCPU
> to change frequency, is slower and more cache costly than
> a direct hypercall to host to switch the frequency.
> 
> If the pCPU where the power manager daemon is running
> is not busy spinning on requests from the isolated DPDK vcpus,
> there is also the cost of HLT wakeup for that pCPU.
> 
> Moreover, the daemon serves multiple VMs, meaning that
> the scheme is subject to additional delays from
> queueing of power change requests from VMs.
> 
> A direct hypercall from userspace is the fastest most direct
> method for the guest to change frequency and does not suffer
> from the issues above.
> 
> The usage scenario for this hypercalls is for pinned vCPUs <-> pCPUs.

Any chance to CC this to linux-pm in the future?  That would help the review
quite a bit.

Thanks,
Rafael

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[patch 0/3] KVM CPU frequency change hypercalls Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> - 2017-02-02 19:00 +0100
  [patch 1/3] cpufreq: implement min/max/up/down functions Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> - 2017-02-02 19:00 +0100
    Re: [patch 1/3] cpufreq: implement min/max/up/down functions Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2017-02-03 05:10 +0100
  [patch 2/3] KVM: x86: introduce ioctl to allow frequency hypercalls Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> - 2017-02-02 19:00 +0100
    Re: [patch 2/3] KVM: x86: introduce ioctl to allow frequency  hypercalls Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-02-03 18:10 +0100
  Re: [patch 3/3] KVM: x86: frequency change hypercalls Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> - 2017-02-02 19:10 +0100
  [patch 3/3] KVM: x86: frequency change hypercalls Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> - 2017-02-02 19:10 +0100
    Re: [patch 3/3] KVM: x86: frequency change hypercalls Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-02-03 18:50 +0100
      Re: [patch 3/3] KVM: x86: frequency change hypercalls Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> - 2017-02-03 19:30 +0100
        Re: [patch 3/3] KVM: x86: frequency change hypercalls Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-02-03 20:30 +0100
  Re: [patch 0/3] KVM CPU frequency change hypercalls "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2017-02-03 14:00 +0100
  Re: [patch 0/3] KVM CPU frequency change hypercalls Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-02-03 17:50 +0100
    Re: [patch 0/3] KVM CPU frequency change hypercalls Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> - 2017-02-03 19:30 +0100
      Re: [patch 0/3] KVM CPU frequency change hypercalls Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-02-03 20:10 +0100

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