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    kvm/irqchip: Speed up KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING · 719d93cd
    Christian Borntraeger authored
    When starting lots of dataplane devices the bootup takes very long on
    Christian's s390 with irqfd patches. With larger setups he is even
    able to trigger some timeouts in some components.  Turns out that the
    KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING ioctl takes very long (strace claims up to 0.1 sec)
    when having multiple CPUs.  This is caused by the  synchronize_rcu and
    the HZ=100 of s390.  By changing the code to use a private srcu we can
    speed things up.  This patch reduces the boot time till mounting root
    from 8 to 2 seconds on my s390 guest with 100 disks.
    
    Uses of hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_add_head_rcu, hlist_del_init_rcu
    are fine because they do not have lockdep checks (hlist_for_each_entry_rcu
    uses rcu_dereference_raw rather than rcu_dereference, and write-sides
    do not do rcu lockdep at all).
    
    Note that we're hardly relying on the "sleepable" part of srcu.  We just
    want SRCU's faster detection of grace periods.
    
    Testing was done by Andrew Theurer using netperf tests STREAM, MAERTS
    and RR.  The difference between results "before" and "after" the patch
    has mean -0.2% and standard deviation 0.6%.  Using a paired t-test on the
    data points says that there is a 2.5% probability that the patch is the
    cause of the performance difference (rather than a random fluctuation).
    
    (Restricting the t-test to RR, which is the most likely to be affected,
    changes the numbers to respectively -0.3% mean, 0.7% stdev, and 8%
    probability that the numbers actually say something about the patch.
    The probability increases mostly because there are fewer data points).
    
    Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
    Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
    Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> # s390
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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