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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2015-09-15 18:27:57 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2015-09-16 12:17:00 +0200
commit62bea5bff486644ecf363fe8a1a2f6f32c614a49 (patch)
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parent8f4216c7d28976f7ec1b2bcbfa0a9f787133c45e (diff)
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KVM: add halt_attempted_poll to VCPU stats
This new statistic can help diagnosing VCPUs that, for any reason, trigger bad behavior of halt_poll_ns autotuning. For example, say halt_poll_ns = 480000, and wakeups are spaced exactly like 479us, 481us, 479us, 481us. Then KVM always fails polling and wastes 10+20+40+80+160+320+480 = 1110 microseconds out of every 479+481+479+481+479+481+479 = 3359 microseconds. The VCPU then is consuming about 30% more CPU than it would use without polling. This would show as an abnormally high number of attempted polling compared to the successful polls. Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com< Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 9af68db..04146a2 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2004,6 +2004,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (vcpu->halt_poll_ns) {
ktime_t stop = ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), vcpu->halt_poll_ns);
+ ++vcpu->stat.halt_attempted_poll;
do {
/*
* This sets KVM_REQ_UNHALT if an interrupt
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