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SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 00/10] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support
On 04/07/2014 10:08 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 04/07/2014 02:14 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
[...]
>> But I am seeing hang in overcommit cases. Gdb showed that many vcpus
>> are halted and there was no progress. Suspecting the problem /race with
>> halting, I removed the halt() part of kvm_hibernate(). I am yet to
>> take a closer look at the code on halt() related changes.
>
> It seems like there may still be race conditions where the current code
> is not handling correctly. I will look into that to see where the
> problem is. BTW, what test do you use to produce the hang condition?

Running ebizzy on 2 of the vms simultaneously (for sometime in repeated
loop) could reproduce it.

>> Patch series with that change gave around 20% improvement for dbench
>> 2x and 30% improvement for ebizzy 2x cases. (1x has no significant
>> loss/gain).
>>

While at it, Just a correction it was 30% for ebizzy1.5x and around
80% for ebizzy 2x.

> What is the baseline for the performance improvement? Is it without the
> unfair lock and PV qspinlock?

Baseline was 3.14-rc8 without any of the qspin patch series.



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