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Rename the perf_test_util.[ch] files to memstress.[ch]. Symbols are
renamed in the following commit to reduce the amount of churn here in
hopes of playiing nice with git's file rename detection.
The name "memstress" was chosen to better describe the functionality
proveded by this library, which is to create and run a VM that
reads/writes to guest memory on all vCPUs in parallel.
"memstress" also contains the same number of chracters as "perf_test",
making it a drop-in replacement in symbols, e.g. function names, without
impacting line lengths. Also the lack of underscore between "mem" and
"stress" makes it clear "memstress" is a noun.
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221012165729.3505266-2-dmatlack@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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Create the ability to randomize page access order with the -a
argument. This includes the possibility that the same pages may be hit
multiple times during an iteration or not at all.
Population has random access as false to ensure all pages will be
touched by population and avoid page faults in late dirty memory that
would pollute the test results.
Signed-off-by: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107182208.479157-5-coltonlewis@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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Randomize which pages are written vs read using the random number
generator.
Change the variable wr_fract and associated function calls to
write_percent that now operates as a percentage from 0 to 100 where X
means each page has an X% chance of being written. Change the -f
argument to -w to reflect the new variable semantics. Keep the same
default of 100% writes.
Population always uses 100% writes to ensure all memory is actually
populated and not just mapped to the zero page. The prevents expensive
copy-on-write faults from occurring during the dirty memory iterations
below, which would pollute the performance results.
Each vCPU calculates its own random seed by adding its index to the
seed provided.
Signed-off-by: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107182208.479157-4-coltonlewis@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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Create a -r argument to specify a random seed. If no argument is
provided, the seed defaults to 1. The random seed is set with
perf_test_set_random_seed() and must be set before guest_code runs to
apply.
Signed-off-by: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107182208.479157-3-coltonlewis@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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Add a command line option, -c, to pin vCPUs to physical CPUs (pCPUs),
i.e. to force vCPUs to run on specific pCPUs.
Requirement to implement this feature came in discussion on the patch
"Make page tables for eager page splitting NUMA aware"
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YuhPT2drgqL+osLl@google.com/
This feature is useful as it provides a way to analyze performance based
on the vCPUs and dirty log worker locations, like on the different NUMA
nodes or on the same NUMA nodes.
To keep things simple, implementation is intentionally very limited,
either all of the vCPUs will be pinned followed by an optional main
thread or nothing will be pinned.
Signed-off-by: Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com>
Suggested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221103191719.1559407-8-vipinsh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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Track vCPUs by their 'struct kvm_vcpu' object, and stop assuming that a
vCPU's ID is the same as its index when referencing a vCPU's metadata.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Add an option to dirty_log_perf_test that configures the vCPUs to run in
L2 instead of L1. This makes it possible to benchmark the dirty logging
performance of nested virtualization, which is particularly interesting
because KVM must shadow L1's EPT/NPT tables.
For now this support only works on x86_64 CPUs with VMX. Otherwise
passing -n results in the test being skipped.
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220520233249.3776001-11-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Remove perf_test_args.host_page_size and instead use getpagesize() so
that it's somewhat obvious that, for tests that care about the host page
size, they care about the system page size, not the hardware page size,
e.g. that the logic is unchanged if hugepages are in play.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Message-Id: <20211111000310.1435032-10-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Move the per-VM GPA into perf_test_args instead of storing it as a
separate global variable. It's not obvious that guest_test_phys_mem
holds a GPA, nor that it's connected/coupled with per_vcpu->gpa.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Message-Id: <20211111000310.1435032-9-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Capture the per-vCPU GPA in perf_test_vcpu_args so that tests can get
the GPA without having to calculate the GPA on their own.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Message-Id: <20211111000310.1435032-7-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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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>
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Add a parameter to control the backing memory type for
dirty_log_perf_test so that the test can be run with hugepages.
To: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
CC: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
CC: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
CC: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210202185734.1680553-28-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Add an option to overlap the ranges of memory each vCPU accesses instead
of partitioning them. This option will increase the probability of
multiple vCPUs faulting on the same page at the same time, and causing
interesting races, if there are bugs in the page fault handler or
elsewhere in the kernel.
Reviewed-by: Jacob Xu <jacobhxu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Makarand Sonare <makarandsonare@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210112214253.463999-6-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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It's not conventional C to put non-inline functions in header
files. Create a source file for the functions instead. Also
reduce the amount of globals and rename the functions to
something less generic.
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201218141734.54359-4-drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201218141734.54359-3-drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Almost all tests do this anyway and the ones that don't don't
appear to care. Only vmx_set_nested_state_test assumes that
a feature (VMX) is disabled until later setting the supported
CPUIDs. It's better to disable that explicitly anyway.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201111122636.73346-11-drjones@redhat.com>
[Restore CPUID_VMX, or vmx_set_nested_state breaks. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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The dirty log perf test will time verious dirty logging operations
(enabling dirty logging, dirtying memory, getting the dirty log,
clearing the dirty log, and disabling dirty logging) in order to
quantify dirty logging performance. This test can be used to inform
future performance improvements to KVM's dirty logging infrastructure.
This series was tested by running the following invocations on an Intel
Skylake machine:
dirty_log_perf_test -b 20m -i 100 -v 64
dirty_log_perf_test -b 20g -i 5 -v 4
dirty_log_perf_test -b 4g -i 5 -v 32
demand_paging_test -b 20m -v 64
demand_paging_test -b 20g -v 4
demand_paging_test -b 4g -v 32
All behaved as expected.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201027233733.1484855-6-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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We also check the input number of vcpus against the maximum supported.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201104212357.171559-8-drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Rename vcpu_memory_bytes to something with "percpu" in it
in order to be less ambiguous. Also make it global to
simplify things.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201104212357.171559-7-drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201104212357.171559-3-drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Wrfract will be used by the dirty logging perf test introduced later in
this series to dirty memory sparsely.
This series was tested by running the following invocations on an Intel
Skylake machine:
dirty_log_perf_test -b 20m -i 100 -v 64
dirty_log_perf_test -b 20g -i 5 -v 4
dirty_log_perf_test -b 4g -i 5 -v 32
demand_paging_test -b 20m -v 64
demand_paging_test -b 20g -v 4
demand_paging_test -b 4g -v 32
All behaved as expected.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201027233733.1484855-5-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Rounding the address the guest writes to a host page boundary
will only have an effect if the host page size is larger than the guest
page size, but in that case the guest write would still go to the same
host page. There's no reason to round the address down, so remove the
rounding to simplify the demand paging test.
This series was tested by running the following invocations on an Intel
Skylake machine:
dirty_log_perf_test -b 20m -i 100 -v 64
dirty_log_perf_test -b 20g -i 5 -v 4
dirty_log_perf_test -b 4g -i 5 -v 32
demand_paging_test -b 20m -v 64
demand_paging_test -b 20g -v 4
demand_paging_test -b 4g -v 32
All behaved as expected.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201027233733.1484855-3-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Much of the code in demand_paging_test can be reused by other, similar
multi-vCPU-memory-touching-perfromance-tests. Factor that common code
out for reuse.
No functional change expected.
This series was tested by running the following invocations on an Intel
Skylake machine:
dirty_log_perf_test -b 20m -i 100 -v 64
dirty_log_perf_test -b 20g -i 5 -v 4
dirty_log_perf_test -b 4g -i 5 -v 32
demand_paging_test -b 20m -v 64
demand_paging_test -b 20g -v 4
demand_paging_test -b 4g -v 32
All behaved as expected.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201027233733.1484855-2-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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