From 62bea5bff486644ecf363fe8a1a2f6f32c614a49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:27:57 +0200 Subject: KVM: add halt_attempted_poll to VCPU stats This new statistic can help diagnosing VCPUs that, for any reason, trigger bad behavior of halt_poll_ns autotuning. For example, say halt_poll_ns = 480000, and wakeups are spaced exactly like 479us, 481us, 479us, 481us. Then KVM always fails polling and wastes 10+20+40+80+160+320+480 = 1110 microseconds out of every 479+481+479+481+479+481+479 = 3359 microseconds. The VCPU then is consuming about 30% more CPU than it would use without polling. This would show as an abnormally high number of attempted polling compared to the successful polls. Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c index d75bf325f54a..cf009167d208 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ struct kvm_stats_debugfs_item debugfs_entries[] = { { "ext_intr", VCPU_STAT(ext_intr_exits) }, { "queue_intr", VCPU_STAT(queue_intr) }, { "halt_successful_poll", VCPU_STAT(halt_successful_poll), }, + { "halt_attempted_poll", VCPU_STAT(halt_attempted_poll), }, { "halt_wakeup", VCPU_STAT(halt_wakeup) }, { "pf_storage", VCPU_STAT(pf_storage) }, { "sp_storage", VCPU_STAT(sp_storage) }, -- cgit v1.2.3