cpuidle: add haltpoll governor
authorMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Wed, 3 Jul 2019 23:51:28 +0000 (20:51 -0300)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:27:37 +0000 (17:27 +0200)
commit2cffe9f6b96fece065ee8522673c90e92ef2085d
tree9d8f97f6710e7abfd7698705ba75bad51401be6f
parent7d4daeedd575bbc3c40c87fc6708a8b88c50fe7e
cpuidle: add haltpoll governor

The cpuidle_haltpoll governor, in conjunction with the haltpoll cpuidle
driver, allows guest vcpus to poll for a specified amount of time before
halting.
This provides the following benefits to host side polling:

        1) The POLL flag is set while polling is performed, which allows
           a remote vCPU to avoid sending an IPI (and the associated
           cost of handling the IPI) when performing a wakeup.

        2) The VM-exit cost can be avoided.

The downside of guest side polling is that polling is performed
even with other runnable tasks in the host.

Results comparing halt_poll_ns and server/client application
where a small packet is ping-ponged:

host                                        --> 31.33
halt_poll_ns=300000 / no guest busy spin    --> 33.40   (93.8%)
halt_poll_ns=0 / guest_halt_poll_ns=300000  --> 32.73   (95.7%)

For the SAP HANA benchmarks (where idle_spin is a parameter
of the previous version of the patch, results should be the
same):

hpns == halt_poll_ns

                          idle_spin=0/   idle_spin=800/    idle_spin=0/
                          hpns=200000    hpns=0            hpns=800000
DeleteC06T03 (100 thread) 1.76           1.71 (-3%)        1.78   (+1%)
InsertC16T02 (100 thread) 2.14           2.07 (-3%)        2.18   (+1.8%)
DeleteC00T01 (1 thread)   1.34           1.28 (-4.5%)      1.29   (-3.7%)
UpdateC00T03 (1 thread)   4.72           4.18 (-12%)       4.53   (-5%)

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Documentation/virtual/guest-halt-polling.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig
drivers/cpuidle/governors/Makefile
drivers/cpuidle/governors/haltpoll.c [new file with mode: 0644]