On 02/16/2017 11:48 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 04:37:50PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * Hand-optimize version for x86-64 to avoid 8 64-bit register saving and
>> + * restoring to/from the stack. It is assumed that the preempted value
>> + * is at an offset of 16
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 04:37:50PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> +/*
> + * Hand-optimize version for x86-64 to avoid 8 64-bit register saving and
> + * restoring to/from the stack. It is assumed that the preempted value
> + * is at an offset of 16 from the beginning of the kvm_steal_time structure
>
It was found when running fio sequential write test with a XFS ramdisk
on a KVM guest running on a 2-socket x86-64 system, the %CPU times
as reported by perf were as follows:
69.75% 0.59% fio [k] down_write
69.15% 0.01% fio [k] call_rwsem_down_write_failed
67.12% 1.12% fio [k]
