powerVM hypervisor updates the VPA fields with stolen time data.
It currently reports enqueue_dispatch_tb and ready_enqueue_tb for
this purpose. In linux these two fields are used to report the stolen time.
The VPA fields are updated at the TB frequency. On powerPC its mostly
set at 512Mhz. Hence this needs a conversion to ns when reporting it
back as rest of the kernel timings are in ns. This conversion is already
handled in tb_to_ns function. So use that function to report accurate
stolen time.
Observed this issue and used an Capped Shared Processor LPAR(SPLPAR) to
simplify the experiments. In all these cases, 100% VP Load is run using
stress-ng workload. Values of stolen time is in percentages as reported
by mpstat. With the patch values are close to expected.
6.8.rc1 +Patch
12EC/12VP 0.0 0.0
12EC/24VP 25.7 50.2
12EC/36VP 37.3 69.2
12EC/48VP 38.5 78.3
Fixes: 0e8a63132800 ("powerpc/pseries: Implement
CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING")
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshe...@linux.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
index 4561667832ed..bdcc428e1c2b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
@@ -662,8 +662,12 @@ u64 pseries_paravirt_steal_clock(int cpu)
{
struct lppaca *lppaca = &lppaca_of(cpu);
- return be64_to_cpu(READ_ONCE(lppaca->enqueue_dispatch_tb)) +
- be64_to_cpu(READ_ONCE(lppaca->ready_enqueue_tb));
+ /*
+ * VPA steal time counters are reported at TB frequency. Hence do a
+ * conversion to ns before returning
+ */
+ return tb_to_ns(be64_to_cpu(READ_ONCE(lppaca->enqueue_dispatch_tb)) +
+ be64_to_cpu(READ_ONCE(lppaca->ready_enqueue_tb)));
}
#endif
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