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>
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