KVM: Note down when cpu relax intercepted or pause loop exited

Noting pause loop exited vcpu or cpu relax intercepted helps in
filtering right candidate to yield. Wrong selection of vcpu;
i.e., a vcpu that just did a pl-exit or cpu relax intercepted may
contribute to performance degradation.

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> # on s390x
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 68dda513cd72..0892b75eeedd 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ int kvm_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm *kvm, unsigned id)
         }
         vcpu->run = page_address(page);
 
+        kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(vcpu, false);
+        kvm_vcpu_set_dy_eligible(vcpu, false);
+
         r = kvm_arch_vcpu_init(vcpu);
         if (r < 0)
                 goto fail_free_run;
@@ -1585,6 +1588,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
         int pass;
         int i;
 
+        kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(me, true);
         /*
          * We boost the priority of a VCPU that is runnable but not
          * currently running, because it got preempted by something
@@ -1610,6 +1614,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *me)
                         }
                 }
         }
+        kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(me, false);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vcpu_on_spin);