[RFC][PATCH 0/4] arm64:kvm: teach guest sched that VCPUs can be preempted

[yezengruan]

On 2020/8/17 10:03, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (20/07/21 13:17), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> 	RFC
>>
>> 	We noticed that in a number of cases when we wake_up_process()
>> on arm64 guest we end up enqueuing that task on a preempted VCPU. The culprit
>> appears to be the fact that arm64 guests are not aware of VCPU preemption
>> as such, so when sched picks up an idle VCPU it always assumes that VCPU
>> is available:
>>
>>       wake_up_process()
>>        try_to_wake_up()
>>         select_task_rq_fair()
>>          available_idle_cpu()
>>           vcpu_is_preempted()    // return false;
>>
>> Which is, obviously, not the case.
>>
>> This RFC patch set adds a simple vcpu_is_preempted() implementation so
>> that scheduler can make better decisions when it search for the idle
>> (v)CPU.
> Hi,
>
> A gentle ping.
>
> 	-ss
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Hi Sergey,

I have a set of patches similar to yours.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191226135833.1052-1-yezengruan@huawei.com/