Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8

The POWER8 processor has a Micro Partition Prefetch Engine, which is
a fancy way of saying "has way to store and load contents of L2 or
L2+MRU way of L3 cache". We initiate the storing of the log (list of
addresses) using the logmpp instruction and start restore by writing
to a SPR.

The logmpp instruction takes parameters in a single 64bit register:
- starting address of the table to store log of L2/L2+L3 cache contents
  - 32kb for L2
  - 128kb for L2+L3
  - Aligned relative to maximum size of the table (32kb or 128kb)
- Log control (no-op, L2 only, L2 and L3, abort logout)

We should abort any ongoing logging before initiating one.

To initiate restore, we write to the MPPR SPR. The format of what to write
to the SPR is similar to the logmpp instruction parameter:
- starting address of the table to read from (same alignment requirements)
- table size (no data, until end of table)
- prefetch rate (from fastest possible to slower. about every 8, 16, 24 or
  32 cycles)

The idea behind loading and storing the contents of L2/L3 cache is to
reduce memory latency in a system that is frequently swapping vcores on
a physical CPU.

The best case scenario for doing this is when some vcores are doing very
cache heavy workloads. The worst case is when they have about 0 cache hits,
so we just generate needless memory operations.

This implementation just does L2 store/load. In my benchmarks this proves
to be useful.

Benchmark 1:
 - 16 core POWER8
 - 3x Ubuntu 14.04LTS guests (LE) with 8 VCPUs each
 - No split core/SMT
 - two guests running sysbench memory test.
   sysbench --test=memory --num-threads=8 run
 - one guest running apache bench (of default HTML page)
   ab -n 490000 -c 400 http://localhost/

This benchmark aims to measure performance of real world application (apache)
where other guests are cache hot with their own workloads. The sysbench memory
benchmark does pointer sized writes to a (small) memory buffer in a loop.

In this benchmark with this patch I can see an improvement both in requests
per second (~5%) and in mean and median response times (again, about 5%).
The spread of minimum and maximum response times were largely unchanged.

benchmark 2:
 - Same VM config as benchmark 1
 - all three guests running sysbench memory benchmark

This benchmark aims to see if there is a positive or negative affect to this
cache heavy benchmark. Although due to the nature of the benchmark (stores) we
may not see a difference in performance, but rather hopefully an improvement
in consistency of performance (when vcore switched in, don't have to wait
many times for cachelines to be pulled in)

The results of this benchmark are improvements in consistency of performance
rather than performance itself. With this patch, the few outliers in duration
go away and we get more consistent performance in each guest.

benchmark 3:
 - same 3 guests and CPU configuration as benchmark 1 and 2.
 - two idle guests
 - 1 guest running STREAM benchmark

This scenario also saw performance improvement with this patch. On Copy and
Scale workloads from STREAM, I got 5-6% improvement with this patch. For
Add and triad, it was around 10% (or more).

benchmark 4:
 - same 3 guests as previous benchmarks
 - two guests running sysbench --memory, distinctly different cache heavy
   workload
 - one guest running STREAM benchmark.

Similar improvements to benchmark 3.

benchmark 5:
 - 1 guest, 8 VCPUs, Ubuntu 14.04
 - Host configured with split core (SMT8, subcores-per-core=4)
 - STREAM benchmark

In this benchmark, we see a 10-20% performance improvement across the board
of STREAM benchmark results with this patch.

Based on preliminary investigation and microbenchmarks
by Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h
index ed0afc1e44a43324a31fb59994b42a768ecb8e33..34a05a1a990bb1337e36a1161d805dcc63efaef3 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
+#include <asm/reg.h>
 
 /* bytes per L1 cache line */
 #if defined(CONFIG_8xx) || defined(CONFIG_403GCX)
@@ -39,6 +40,12 @@ struct ppc64_caches {
 };
 
 extern struct ppc64_caches ppc64_caches;
+
+static inline void logmpp(u64 x)
+{
+       asm volatile(PPC_LOGMPP(R1) : : "r" (x));
+}
+
 #endif /* __powerpc64__ && ! __ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #if defined(__ASSEMBLY__)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 5fe2b5d17bc081969ea9a3333384cde63d33e5a7..11385bb46527efe7017b868c34927c540142e5ec 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -307,6 +307,8 @@ struct kvmppc_vcore {
        u32 arch_compat;
        ulong pcr;
        ulong dpdes;            /* doorbell state (POWER8) */
+       void *mpp_buffer; /* Micro Partition Prefetch buffer */
+       bool mpp_buffer_is_valid;
 };
 
 #define VCORE_ENTRY_COUNT(vc)  ((vc)->entry_exit_count & 0xff)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h
index 3132bb9365f33788771c610aea90e25384f736d0..c636841fc77201565a2436584cf63a3f09c69151 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@
 #define PPC_INST_ISEL                  0x7c00001e
 #define PPC_INST_ISEL_MASK             0xfc00003e
 #define PPC_INST_LDARX                 0x7c0000a8
+#define PPC_INST_LOGMPP                        0x7c0007e4
 #define PPC_INST_LSWI                  0x7c0004aa
 #define PPC_INST_LSWX                  0x7c00042a
 #define PPC_INST_LWARX                 0x7c000028
@@ -275,6 +276,20 @@
 #define __PPC_EH(eh)   0
 #endif
 
+/* POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch (MPP) parameters */
+/* Address mask is common for LOGMPP instruction and MPPR SPR */
+#define PPC_MPPE_ADDRESS_MASK 0xffffffffc000
+
+/* Bits 60 and 61 of MPP SPR should be set to one of the following */
+/* Aborting the fetch is indeed setting 00 in the table size bits */
+#define PPC_MPPR_FETCH_ABORT (0x0ULL << 60)
+#define PPC_MPPR_FETCH_WHOLE_TABLE (0x2ULL << 60)
+
+/* Bits 54 and 55 of register for LOGMPP instruction should be set to: */
+#define PPC_LOGMPP_LOG_L2 (0x02ULL << 54)
+#define PPC_LOGMPP_LOG_L2L3 (0x01ULL << 54)
+#define PPC_LOGMPP_LOG_ABORT (0x03ULL << 54)
+
 /* Deal with instructions that older assemblers aren't aware of */
 #define        PPC_DCBAL(a, b)         stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_DCBAL | \
                                        __PPC_RA(a) | __PPC_RB(b))
@@ -283,6 +298,8 @@
 #define PPC_LDARX(t, a, b, eh) stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_LDARX | \
                                        ___PPC_RT(t) | ___PPC_RA(a) | \
                                        ___PPC_RB(b) | __PPC_EH(eh))
+#define PPC_LOGMPP(b)          stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_LOGMPP | \
+                                       __PPC_RB(b))
 #define PPC_LWARX(t, a, b, eh) stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_LWARX | \
                                        ___PPC_RT(t) | ___PPC_RA(a) | \
                                        ___PPC_RB(b) | __PPC_EH(eh))

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
index 0ef17ade7730438dc2b407550cd3f9cbeeccdc2d..c547b26371b8a2d4147004105143647b8c0ae784 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@
 #define   CTRL_TE      0x00c00000      /* thread enable */
 #define   CTRL_RUNLATCH        0x1
 #define SPRN_DAWR      0xB4
+#define SPRN_MPPR      0xB8    /* Micro Partition Prefetch Register */
 #define SPRN_RPR       0xBA    /* Relative Priority Register */
 #define SPRN_CIABR     0xBB
 #define   CIABR_PRIV           0x3

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 5042cccd9fde604df6aa884f63d3f73537177b13..c470d55cffe15fab30a4afe5293c7554fb462ab4 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/reg.h>
 #include <asm/cputable.h>
+#include <asm/cache.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -69,6 +70,13 @@
 
 static DECLARE_BITMAP(default_enabled_hcalls, MAX_HCALL_OPCODE/4 + 1);
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES)
+#define MPP_BUFFER_ORDER       0
+#elif defined(CONFIG_PPC_4K_PAGES)
+#define MPP_BUFFER_ORDER       3
+#endif
+
+
 static void kvmppc_end_cede(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
 static int kvmppc_hv_setup_htab_rma(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
 
@@ -1320,6 +1328,13 @@ static struct kvmppc_vcore *kvmppc_vcore_create(struct kvm *kvm, int core)
        vcore->first_vcpuid = core * threads_per_subcore;
        vcore->kvm = kvm;
 
+       vcore->mpp_buffer_is_valid = false;
+
+       if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S))
+               vcore->mpp_buffer = (void *)__get_free_pages(
+                       GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO,
+                       MPP_BUFFER_ORDER);
+
        return vcore;
 }
 
@@ -1586,6 +1601,33 @@ static int on_primary_thread(void)
        return 1;
 }
 
+static void kvmppc_start_saving_l2_cache(struct kvmppc_vcore *vc)
+{
+       phys_addr_t phy_addr, mpp_addr;
+
+       phy_addr = (phys_addr_t)virt_to_phys(vc->mpp_buffer);
+       mpp_addr = phy_addr & PPC_MPPE_ADDRESS_MASK;
+
+       mtspr(SPRN_MPPR, mpp_addr | PPC_MPPR_FETCH_ABORT);
+       logmpp(mpp_addr | PPC_LOGMPP_LOG_L2);
+
+       vc->mpp_buffer_is_valid = true;
+}
+
+static void kvmppc_start_restoring_l2_cache(const struct kvmppc_vcore *vc)
+{
+       phys_addr_t phy_addr, mpp_addr;
+
+       phy_addr = virt_to_phys(vc->mpp_buffer);
+       mpp_addr = phy_addr & PPC_MPPE_ADDRESS_MASK;
+
+       /* We must abort any in-progress save operations to ensure
+        * the table is valid so that prefetch engine knows when to
+        * stop prefetching. */
+       logmpp(mpp_addr | PPC_LOGMPP_LOG_ABORT);
+       mtspr(SPRN_MPPR, mpp_addr | PPC_MPPR_FETCH_WHOLE_TABLE);
+}
+
 /*
  * Run a set of guest threads on a physical core.
  * Called with vc->lock held.
@@ -1663,9 +1705,16 @@ static void kvmppc_run_core(struct kvmppc_vcore *vc)
 
        srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&vc->kvm->srcu);
 
+       if (vc->mpp_buffer_is_valid)
+               kvmppc_start_restoring_l2_cache(vc);
+
        __kvmppc_vcore_entry();
 
        spin_lock(&vc->lock);
+
+       if (vc->mpp_buffer)
+               kvmppc_start_saving_l2_cache(vc);
+
        /* disable sending of IPIs on virtual external irqs */
        list_for_each_entry(vcpu, &vc->runnable_threads, arch.run_list)
                vcpu->cpu = -1;
@@ -2413,8 +2462,14 @@ static void kvmppc_free_vcores(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
        long int i;
 
-       for (i = 0; i < KVM_MAX_VCORES; ++i)
+       for (i = 0; i < KVM_MAX_VCORES; ++i) {
+               if (kvm->arch.vcores[i] && kvm->arch.vcores[i]->mpp_buffer) {
+                       struct kvmppc_vcore *vc = kvm->arch.vcores[i];
+                       free_pages((unsigned long)vc->mpp_buffer,
+                                  MPP_BUFFER_ORDER);
+               }
                kfree(kvm->arch.vcores[i]);
+       }
        kvm->arch.online_vcores = 0;
 }