KVM: X86: Boost queue head vCPU to mitigate lock waiter preemption

Commit 11752adb (locking/pvqspinlock: Implement hybrid PV queued/unfair locks) introduces hybrid PV queued/unfair locks - queued mode (no starvation) - unfair mode (good performance on not heavily contended lock) The lock waiter goes into the unfair mode especially in VMs with over-commit vCPUs since increaing over-commitment increase the likehood that the queue head vCPU may have been preempted and not actively spinning. However, reschedule queue head vCPU timely to acquire the lock still can get better performance than just depending on lock stealing in over-subscribe scenario. Testing on 80 HT 2 socket Xeon Skylake server, with 80 vCPUs VM 80GB RAM: ebizzy -M vanilla boosting improved 1VM 23520 25040 6% 2VM 8000 13600 70% 3VM 3100 5400 74% The lock holder vCPU yields to the queue head vCPU when unlock, to boost queue head vCPU which is involuntary preemption or the one which is voluntary halt due to fail to acquire the lock after a short spin in the guest.

WLWanpeng Li committed 7 years ago