credit1: on vCPU wakeup, kick away current only if makes sense
In fact, when waking up a vCPU, __runq_tickle() is called
to allow the new vCPU to run on a pCPU (which one, depends
on the relationship between the priority of the new vCPU,
and the ones of the vCPUs that are already running).
If there is no idle processor on which the new vCPU can
run (e.g., because of pinning/affinity), we try to migrate
away the vCPU that is currently running on the new vCPU's
processor (i.e., the processor on which the vCPU is waking
up).
Now, trying to migrate a vCPU has the effect of pushing it
through a
running --> offline --> runnable
transition, which, in turn, has the following negative
effects:
1) Credit1 counts that as a wakeup, and it BOOSTs the
vCPU, even if it is a CPU-bound one, which wouldn't
normally have deserved boosting. This can prevent
legit IO-bound vCPUs to get ahold of the processor
until such spurious boosting expires, hurting the
performance!
2) since the vCPU is fails the vcpu_runnable() test
(within the call to csched_schedule() that follows
the wakeup, as a consequence of tickling) the
scheduling rate-limiting mechanism is also fooled,
i.e., the context switch happens even if less than
the minimum execution amount of time passed.
In particular, 1) has been reported to cause the following
issue:
* VM-IO: 1-vCPU pinned to a pCPU, running netperf
* VM-CPU: 1-vCPU pinned the the same pCPU, running a busy
CPU loop
==> Only VM-I/O: throughput is 806.64 Mbps
==> VM-I/O + VM-CPU: throughput is 166.50 Mbps
This patch solves (for the above scenario) the problem
by checking whether or not it makes sense to try to
migrate away the vCPU currently running on the processor.
In fact, if there aren't idle processors where such a vCPU
can execute. attempting the migration is just futile
(harmful, actually!).
With this patch, in the above configuration, results are:
==> Only VM-I/O: throughput is 807.18 Mbps
==> VM-I/O + VM-CPU: throughput is 731.66 Mbps
Reported-by: Kun Suo <ksuo@uccs.edu>
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Kun Suo <ksuo@uccs.edu>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>