[PATCH 04/14] KVM: Reconcile discrepancies in halt-polling stats

Sean Christopherson seanjc at google.com
Fri Sep 24 17:55:18 PDT 2021


Move the halt-polling "success" and histogram stats update into the
dedicated helper to fix a discrepancy where the success/fail "time" stats
consider polling successful so long as the wait is avoided, but the main
"success" and histogram stats consider polling successful if and only if
a wake event was detected by the halt-polling loop.

Move halt_attempted_poll to the helper as well so that all the stats are
updated in a single location.  While it's a bit odd to update the stat
well after the fact, practically speaking there's no meaningful advantage
to updating before polling.

Note, there is a functional change in addition to the success vs. fail
change.  The histogram updates previously called ktime_get() instead of
using "cur".  But that change is desirable as it means all the stats are
now updated with the same polling time, and avoids the extra ktime_get(),
which isn't expensive but isn't free either.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 12fe91a0a4c8..2ba22b68af3b 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -3202,12 +3202,23 @@ static int kvm_vcpu_check_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 static inline void update_halt_poll_stats(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, ktime_t start,
 					  ktime_t end, bool success)
 {
+	struct kvm_vcpu_stat_generic *stats = &vcpu->stat.generic;
 	u64 poll_ns = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(end, start));
 
-	if (success)
-		vcpu->stat.generic.halt_poll_success_ns += poll_ns;
-	else
-		vcpu->stat.generic.halt_poll_fail_ns += poll_ns;
+	++vcpu->stat.generic.halt_attempted_poll;
+
+	if (success) {
+		++vcpu->stat.generic.halt_successful_poll;
+
+		if (!vcpu_valid_wakeup(vcpu))
+			++vcpu->stat.generic.halt_poll_invalid;
+
+		stats->halt_poll_success_ns += poll_ns;
+		KVM_STATS_LOG_HIST_UPDATE(stats->halt_poll_success_hist, poll_ns);
+	} else {
+		stats->halt_poll_fail_ns += poll_ns;
+		KVM_STATS_LOG_HIST_UPDATE(stats->halt_poll_fail_hist, poll_ns);
+	}
 }
 
 /*
@@ -3227,30 +3238,16 @@ void kvm_vcpu_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (do_halt_poll) {
 		ktime_t stop = ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), vcpu->halt_poll_ns);
 
-		++vcpu->stat.generic.halt_attempted_poll;
 		do {
 			/*
 			 * This sets KVM_REQ_UNHALT if an interrupt
 			 * arrives.
 			 */
-			if (kvm_vcpu_check_block(vcpu) < 0) {
-				++vcpu->stat.generic.halt_successful_poll;
-				if (!vcpu_valid_wakeup(vcpu))
-					++vcpu->stat.generic.halt_poll_invalid;
-
-				KVM_STATS_LOG_HIST_UPDATE(
-				      vcpu->stat.generic.halt_poll_success_hist,
-				      ktime_to_ns(ktime_get()) -
-				      ktime_to_ns(start));
+			if (kvm_vcpu_check_block(vcpu) < 0)
 				goto out;
-			}
 			cpu_relax();
 			poll_end = cur = ktime_get();
 		} while (kvm_vcpu_can_poll(cur, stop));
-
-		KVM_STATS_LOG_HIST_UPDATE(
-				vcpu->stat.generic.halt_poll_fail_hist,
-				ktime_to_ns(ktime_get()) - ktime_to_ns(start));
 	}
 
 
-- 
2.33.0.685.g46640cef36-goog




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