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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2009-03-31 20:12:44 +0000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2009-04-07 15:18:59 +1000
commit0559f0a7611bdd336b7297dce179f793b565f148 (patch)
tree9236baea733c3a4f27036988ec16fba8f0ca3897 /arch
parent1f8737aab39e15684bf6b6b53586b7c89a269f79 (diff)
downloadlinux-0559f0a7611bdd336b7297dce179f793b565f148.tar.gz
powerpc/pseries: Add dispatch dispersion statistics
PHYP tells us how often a shared processor dispatch changed physical cpus.
This can highlight performance problems caused by the hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h2
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c16
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h
index 68235f7e4a8f..d2a65e8ca6ae 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ struct lppaca {
 	// NOTE: This value will ALWAYS be zero for dedicated processors and
 	// will NEVER be zero for shared processors (ie, initialized to a 1).
 	volatile u32 yield_count;	// PLIC increments each dispatchx00-x03
-	u32 reserved6;
+	volatile u32 dispersion_count;	// dispatch changed phys cpu    x04-x07
 	volatile u64 cmo_faults;	// CMO page fault count         x08-x0F
 	volatile u64 cmo_fault_time;	// CMO page fault time          x10-x17
 	u8	reserved7[104];		// Reserved                     x18-x7F
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c
index 182e0f642f36..78b3f7840ade 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c
@@ -434,6 +434,21 @@ static void pseries_cmo_data(struct seq_file *m)
 	seq_printf(m, "cmo_page_size=%lu\n", cmo_get_page_size());
 }
 
+static void splpar_dispatch_data(struct seq_file *m)
+{
+	int cpu;
+	unsigned long dispatches = 0;
+	unsigned long dispatch_dispersions = 0;
+
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+		dispatches += lppaca[cpu].yield_count;
+		dispatch_dispersions += lppaca[cpu].dispersion_count;
+	}
+
+	seq_printf(m, "dispatches=%lu\n", dispatches);
+	seq_printf(m, "dispatch_dispersions=%lu\n", dispatch_dispersions);
+}
+
 static int pseries_lparcfg_data(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 {
 	int partition_potential_processors;
@@ -460,6 +475,7 @@ static int pseries_lparcfg_data(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 		parse_ppp_data(m);
 		parse_mpp_data(m);
 		pseries_cmo_data(m);
+		splpar_dispatch_data(m);
 
 		seq_printf(m, "purr=%ld\n", get_purr());
 	} else {		/* non SPLPAR case */