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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1774605] Re: PowerPC guest does not emulate L2 and L3
From: |
Satheesh Rajendran |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1774605] Re: PowerPC guest does not emulate L2 and L3 cache for KVM vCPUs |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 08:50:27 -0000 |
Guest xml(cpu portion):
...
<vcpu placement='static' current='16'>32</vcpu>
<resource>
<partition>/machine</partition>
</resource>
<os>
<type arch='ppc64le' machine='pseries-2.13'>hvm</type>
<kernel>/home/kvmci/linux/vmlinux</kernel>
<cmdline>root=/dev/sda2 rw console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
init=/sbin/init initcall_debug</cmdline>
<boot dev='hd'/>
</os>
<cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'>
<topology sockets='2' cores='2' threads='8'/>
</cpu>
...
Host lscpu:
# lscpu
Architecture: ppc64le
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 80
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,8,16,24,32,40,48,56,64,72
Off-line CPU(s) list: 1-7,9-15,17-23,25-31,33-39,41-47,49-55,57-63,65-71,73-79
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 5
Socket(s): 2
NUMA node(s): 2
Model: 2.1 (pvr 004b 0201)
Model name: POWER8E (raw), altivec supported
CPU max MHz: 3690.0000
CPU min MHz: 2061.0000
L1d cache: 64K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 512K
L3 cache: 8192K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,8,16,24,32
NUMA node1 CPU(s): 40,48,56,64,72
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1774605
Title:
PowerPC guest does not emulate L2 and L3 cache for KVM vCPUs
Status in QEMU:
New
Bug description:
PowerPC KVM guest does not emulate L2 and L2 caches for vCPU, it would
be good to have them enabled if not any known issues/limitation
already with PowerPC.
Host Env:
kernel: 4.17.0-rc7-00045-g0512e0134582
qemu: v2.12.0-923-gc181ddaa17-dirty
#libvirtd -V
libvirtd (libvirt) 4.4.0
Guest Kernel:
# uname -a
Linux atest-guest 4.17.0-rc7-00045-g0512e0134582 #9 SMP Fri Jun 1 02:55:50
EDT 2018 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
Guest:
# lscpu
Architecture: ppc64le
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 16
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-15
Thread(s) per core: 8
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Model: 2.1 (pvr 004b 0201)
Model name: POWER8 (architected), altivec supported
Hypervisor vendor: KVM
Virtualization type: para
L1d cache: 64K
L1i cache: 32K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-15
background: x86 enabling cpu L2 cache bydefault and L3 cache on demand for
kvm guest
and claims performance improvement as vcpus can be
benefited with lesser `vmexits due to guest send IPIs.` with L3 cache
enabled, below was patch for same.
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=14c985cffa6cb177fc01a163d8bcf227c104718c
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