Move vCPU thread creation and joining to common helper functions. This
is in preparation for the next commit which ensures that all vCPU
threads are fully created before entering guest mode on any one
vCPU.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20211111001257.1446428-3-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Start at iteration 0 instead of -1 to avoid having to initialize
vcpu_last_completed_iteration when setting up vCPU threads. This
simplifies the next commit where we move vCPU thread initialization
out to a common helper.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Message-Id: <20211111001257.1446428-2-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Copy perf_test_args to the guest during VM creation instead of relying on
the caller to do so at their leisure. Ideally, tests wouldn't even be
able to modify perf_test_args, i.e. they would have no motivation to do
the sync, but enforcing that is arguably a net negative for readability.
No functional change intended.
[Set wr_fract=1 by default and add helper to override it since the new
access_tracking_perf_test needs to set it dynamically.]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20211111000310.1435032-13-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Fill the per-vCPU args when creating the perf_test VM instead of having
the caller do so. This helps ensure that any adjustments to the number
of pages (and thus vcpu_memory_bytes) are reflected in the per-VM args.
Automatically filling the per-vCPU args will also allow a future patch
to do the sync to the guest during creation.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
[Updated access_tracking_perf_test as well.]
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20211111000310.1435032-12-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
All selftests that support the backing_src option were printing their
own description of the flag and then calling backing_src_help() to dump
the list of available backing sources. Consolidate the flag printing in
backing_src_help() to align indentation, reduce duplicated strings, and
improve consistency across tests.
Note: Passing "-s" to backing_src_help is unnecessary since every test
uses the same flag. However I decided to keep it for code readability
at the call sites.
While here this opportunistically fixes the incorrectly interleaved
printing -x help message and list of backing source types in
dirty_log_perf_test.
Fixes: 609e6202ea ("KVM: selftests: Support multiple slots in dirty_log_perf_test")
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210917173657.44011-3-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
perf_test_util is used to set up KVM selftests where vCPUs touch a
region of memory. The guest code is implemented in perf_test_util.c (not
the calling selftests). The guest code requires a 1 parameter, the
vcpuid, which has to be set by calling vcpu_args_set(vm, vcpu_id, 1,
vcpu_id).
Today all of the selftests that use perf_test_util are making this call.
Instead, perf_test_util should just do it. This will save some code but
more importantly prevents mistakes since totally non-obvious that this
needs to be called and failing to do so results in vCPUs not accessing
the right regions of memory.
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210805172821.2622793-1-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Introduce a new option to dirty_log_perf_test: -x number_of_slots. This
causes the test to attempt to split the region of memory into the given
number of slots. If the region cannot be evenly divided, the test will
fail.
This allows testing with more than one slot and therefore measure how
performance scales with the number of memslots.
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210804222844.1419481-8-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This test measures the performance effects of KVM's access tracking.
Access tracking is driven by the MMU notifiers test_young, clear_young,
and clear_flush_young. These notifiers do not have a direct userspace
API, however the clear_young notifier can be triggered by marking a
pages as idle in /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap. This test leverages
that mechanism to enable access tracking on guest memory.
To measure performance this test runs a VM with a configurable number of
vCPUs that each touch every page in disjoint regions of memory.
Performance is measured in the time it takes all vCPUs to finish
touching their predefined region.
Example invocation:
$ ./access_tracking_perf_test -v 8
Testing guest mode: PA-bits:ANY, VA-bits:48, 4K pages
guest physical test memory offset: 0xffdfffff000
Populating memory : 1.337752570s
Writing to populated memory : 0.010177640s
Reading from populated memory : 0.009548239s
Mark memory idle : 23.973131748s
Writing to idle memory : 0.063584496s
Mark memory idle : 24.924652964s
Reading from idle memory : 0.062042814s
Breaking down the results:
* "Populating memory": The time it takes for all vCPUs to perform the
first write to every page in their region.
* "Writing to populated memory" / "Reading from populated memory": The
time it takes for all vCPUs to write and read to every page in their
region after it has been populated. This serves as a control for the
later results.
* "Mark memory idle": The time it takes for every vCPU to mark every
page in their region as idle through page_idle.
* "Writing to idle memory" / "Reading from idle memory": The time it
takes for all vCPUs to write and read to every page in their region
after it has been marked idle.
This test should be portable across architectures but it is only enabled
for x86_64 since that's all I have tested.
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210713220957.3493520-7-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
