Commit 62bea5bf authored by Paolo Bonzini's avatar Paolo Bonzini
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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: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com&lt;>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 8f4216c7

arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h

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@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ struct kvm_vm_stat { 


struct kvm_vcpu_stat {

	u32 halt_successful_poll;

	u32 halt_attempted_poll;

	u32 halt_wakeup;

};

arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h

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@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ struct kvm_vm_stat { 


struct kvm_vcpu_stat {

	u32 halt_successful_poll;

	u32 halt_attempted_poll;

	u32 halt_wakeup;

};

arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h

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@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_stat { 
	u32 msa_disabled_exits;

	u32 flush_dcache_exits;

	u32 halt_successful_poll;

	u32 halt_attempted_poll;

	u32 halt_wakeup;

};

arch/mips/kvm/mips.c

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@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ struct kvm_stats_debugfs_item debugfs_entries[] = { 
	{ "msa_disabled", VCPU_STAT(msa_disabled_exits), KVM_STAT_VCPU },

	{ "flush_dcache", VCPU_STAT(flush_dcache_exits), KVM_STAT_VCPU },

	{ "halt_successful_poll", VCPU_STAT(halt_successful_poll), KVM_STAT_VCPU },

	{ "halt_attempted_poll", VCPU_STAT(halt_attempted_poll), KVM_STAT_VCPU },

	{ "halt_wakeup",  VCPU_STAT(halt_wakeup),	 KVM_STAT_VCPU },

	{NULL}

};

arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h

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@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_stat { 
	u32 dec_exits;

	u32 ext_intr_exits;

	u32 halt_successful_poll;

	u32 halt_attempted_poll;

	u32 halt_wakeup;

	u32 dbell_exits;

	u32 gdbell_exits;

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