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Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests

From Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests
Date 2017-03-21 18:10 +0100
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2017-03-21 05:22+0200, Michael S. Tsirkin:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 09:23:56AM -0400, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
>> OK, now on to Radim's test, on the MacPro1,1:
>> 
>> [kvm-unit-tests]$ time TIMEOUT=20 ./x86-run x86/mwait.flat -append '240 1 1'
>> timeout -k 1s --foreground 20 qemu-kvm -nodefaults -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/mwait.flat -append 240 1 1
>> enabling apic
>> PASS: resumed from mwait 10000 times
>> SUMMARY: 1 tests
>> 
>> real    0m0.746s
>> user    0m0.542s
>> sys     0m0.215s
>> [kvm-unit-tests]$ time TIMEOUT=20 ./x86-run x86/mwait.flat -append '240 1 0'
>> timeout -k 1s --foreground 20 qemu-kvm -nodefaults -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/mwait.flat -append 240 1 0
>> enabling apic
>> PASS: resumed from mwait 10000 times
>> SUMMARY: 1 tests
>> 
>> real    0m0.743s
>> user    0m0.528s
>> sys     0m0.226s
>> [kvm-unit-tests]$ time TIMEOUT=20 ./x86-run x86/mwait.flat -append '240 1 1' -smp 2
>> timeout -k 1s --foreground 20 qemu-kvm -nodefaults -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/mwait.flat -append 240 1 1 -smp 2
>> enabling apic
>> enabling apic
>> FAIL: resumed from mwait 10150 times
>> SUMMARY: 1 tests, 1 unexpected failures
>> 
>> real    0m0.745s
>> user    0m0.545s
>> sys     0m0.214s
>> [kvm-unit-tests]$ time TIMEOUT=20 ./x86-run x86/mwait.flat -append '240 1 0' -smp 2
>> timeout -k 1s --foreground 20 qemu-kvm -nodefaults -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -kernel x86/mwait.flat -append 240 1 0 -smp 2
>> enabling apic
>> enabling apic
>> FAIL: resumed from mwait 10116 times
>> SUMMARY: 1 tests, 1 unexpected failures
>> 
>> real    0m0.744s
>> user    0m0.541s
>> sys     0m0.217s
>> 
>> HTH,
>> --Gabriel
> 
> Weird. How can it go above 10000? Radim - any idea?

In '-smp 2', the writing VCPU always does 10000 wakeups by writing into
monitored memory, but the mwaiting VCPU can be also woken up by host
interrupts, which might add a few exits depending on timing.

I didn't spend much time in making the PASS/FAIL mean much, or ensuring
that we only get 10000 wakeups ... it is nothing to be worried about.

Hint 240 behaves as nop even on my system, so I still don't find
anything insane on that machine (if OS X is exluded) ...

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[PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-15 22:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 00:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 00:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 14:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 15:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 17:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 17:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 17:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 15:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 16:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 16:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 16:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 17:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 17:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 18:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 18:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 19:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 20:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 21:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 22:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-17 03:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-17 14:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-21 04:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-03-21 18:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2017-03-21 18:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-03-21 20:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests Gabriel Somlo <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-22 00:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2017-03-22 01:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-22 14:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-22 15:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-22 15:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 20:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 18:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 18:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 17:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 17:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 18:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 18:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 18:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2017-03-16 18:40 +0100
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  Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> - 2017-03-27 15:40 +0200

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