[PATCH v10 0/9] Hyper-V: paravirtualized remote TLB flushing and hypercall improvements

[Wanpeng Li]

2017-08-03 0:09 GMT+08:00 Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets at redhat.com>:
> Changes since v9:
> - Rebase to 4.13-rc3.
> - Drop PATCH1 as it was already taken by Greg to char-misc tree. There're no
>   functional dependencies on this patch so the series can go through a different tree
>   (and it actually belongs to x86 if I got Ingo's comment right).
> - Add in missing void return type in PATCH1 [Colin King, Ingo Molnar, Greg KH]
> - A few minor fixes in what is now PATCH7: add pr_fmt, tiny style fix in
>   hyperv_flush_tlb_others() [Andy Shevchenko]
> - Fix "error: implicit declaration of function 'virt_to_phys'" in PATCH2
>   reported by kbuild test robot (#include <asm/io.h>)
> - Add Steven's 'Reviewed-by:' to PATCH9.
>
> Original description:
>
> Hyper-V supports hypercalls for doing local and remote TLB flushing and
> gives its guests hints when using hypercall is preferred. While doing
> hypercalls for local TLB flushes is probably not practical (and is not
> being suggested by modern Hyper-V versions) remote TLB flush with a
> hypercall brings significant improvement.
>
> To test the series I wrote a special 'TLB trasher': on a 16 vCPU guest I
> was creating 32 threads which were doing 100000 mmap/munmaps each on some
> big file. Here are the results:
>
> Before:
> # time ./pthread_mmap ./randfile
> real    3m33.118s
> user    0m3.698s
> sys     3m16.624s
>
> After:
> # time ./pthread_mmap ./randfile
> real    2m19.920s
> user    0m2.662s
> sys     2m9.948s
>
> This series brings a number of small improvements along the way: fast
> hypercall implementation and using it for event signaling, rep hypercalls
> implementation, hyperv tracing subsystem (which only traces the newly added
> remote TLB flush for now).
>

Hi Vitaly,

Could you attach your benchmark? I'm interested in to try the
implementation in paravirt kvm.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li