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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2012-06-24 19:25:07 +0300
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2012-06-25 12:40:55 +0300
commitae7a2a3fb6f8b784c2752863f4f1f20c656f76fb (patch)
tree5f4053265d244bb12ccff88494d70124b6d603c3 /arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
parentd905c0693514e6f713b207377b67c9972c5d7d49 (diff)
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KVM: host side for eoi optimization
Implementation of PV EOI using shared memory. This reduces the number of exits an interrupt causes as much as by half. The idea is simple: there's a bit, per APIC, in guest memory, that tells the guest that it does not need EOI. We set it before injecting an interrupt and clear before injecting a nested one. Guest tests it using a test and clear operation - this is necessary so that host can detect interrupt nesting - and if set, it can skip the EOI MSR. There's a new MSR to set the address of said register in guest memory. Otherwise not much changed: - Guest EOI is not required - Register is tested & ISR is automatically cleared on exit For testing results see description of previous patch 'kvm_para: guest side for eoi avoidance'. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/x86.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/x86.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 7ea0f611bc89..8eacb2e64560 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -795,6 +795,7 @@ static u32 msrs_to_save[] = {
MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME_NEW, MSR_KVM_WALL_CLOCK_NEW,
HV_X64_MSR_GUEST_OS_ID, HV_X64_MSR_HYPERCALL,
HV_X64_MSR_APIC_ASSIST_PAGE, MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN, MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME,
+ MSR_KVM_PV_EOI_EN,
MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS, MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP, MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP,
MSR_STAR,
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
@@ -1653,6 +1654,10 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 data)
kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_STEAL_UPDATE, vcpu);
break;
+ case MSR_KVM_PV_EOI_EN:
+ if (kvm_lapic_enable_pv_eoi(vcpu, data))
+ return 1;
+ break;
case MSR_IA32_MCG_CTL:
case MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS:
@@ -5394,6 +5399,8 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
cancel_injection:
kvm_x86_ops->cancel_injection(vcpu);
+ if (unlikely(vcpu->arch.apic_attention))
+ kvm_lapic_sync_from_vapic(vcpu);
out:
return r;
}
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