During migrations, after each iteration, cpu_throttle_set() is called,
which irrespective of input, re-arms the timer according to value of
new_throttle_pct. This causes cpu_throttle_thread() to be delayed in
getting scheduled and consqeuntly lets guest run for more time than what
the throttle value should allow. This leads to spikes in guest throughput
at high cpu-throttle percentage whenever cpu_throttle_set() is called.
A solution would be not to modify the timer immediately in
cpu_throttle_set(), instead, only modify throttle_percentage so that the
throttle would automatically adjust to the required percentage when
cpu_throttle_timer_tick() is invoked.
Manually tested the patch using following configuration:
Guest:
Centos7 (3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64)
Total Memory - 64GB , CPUs - 16
Tool used - stress (1.0.4)
Workload - stress --vm 32 --vm-bytes 1G --vm-keep
Migration Parameters:
Network Bandwidth - 500MBPS
cpu-throttle-initial - 99
Results:
With timer_mod(): fails to converge, continues indefinitely
Without timer_mod(): converges in 249 sec
Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Tripathi <utkarsh.tripathi@nutanix.com>
Message-Id: <1609420384-119407-1-git-send-email-utkarsh.tripathi@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
clang's C11 atomic_fetch_*() functions only take a C11 atomic type
pointer argument. QEMU uses direct types (int, etc) and this causes a
compiler error when a QEMU code calls these functions in a source file
that also included <stdatomic.h> via a system header file:
$ CC=clang CXX=clang++ ./configure ... && make
../util/async.c:79:17: error: address argument to atomic operation must be a pointer to _Atomic type ('unsigned int *' invalid)
Avoid using atomic_*() names in QEMU's atomic.h since that namespace is
used by <stdatomic.h>. Prefix QEMU's APIs with 'q' so that atomic.h
and <stdatomic.h> can co-exist. I checked /usr/include on my machine and
searched GitHub for existing "qatomic_" users but there seem to be none.
This patch was generated using:
$ git grep -h -o '\<atomic\(64\)\?_[a-z0-9_]\+' include/qemu/atomic.h | \
sort -u >/tmp/changed_identifiers
$ for identifier in $(</tmp/changed_identifiers); do
sed -i "s%\<$identifier\>%q$identifier%g" \
$(git grep -I -l "\<$identifier\>")
done
I manually fixed line-wrap issues and misaligned rST tables.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200923105646.47864-1-stefanha@redhat.com>
move the vcpu throttling functionality into its own module.
This functionality is not specific to any accelerator,
and it is used currently by migration to slow down guests to try to
have migrations converge, and by the cocoa MacOS UI to throttle speed.
cpu-throttle contains the controls to adjust and inspect throttle
settings, start (set) and stop vcpu throttling, and the throttling
function itself that is run periodically on vcpus to make them take a nap.
Execution of the throttling function on all vcpus is triggered by a timer,
registered at module initialization.
No functionality change.
Signed-off-by: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200629093504.3228-3-cfontana@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
