commit cbecc9fcbb upstream.
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: 0e8a631328 ("powerpc/pseries: Implement CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.1+
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240213052635.231597-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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