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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, feng.wu@intel.com, mst@redhat.com,
	rkrcmar@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] kvm: x86: avoid atomic operations on APICv vmentry
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:20:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1475011213-34225-2-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1475011213-34225-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>

On some benchmarks (e.g. netperf with ioeventfd disabled), APICv
posted interrupts turn out to be slower than interrupt injection via
KVM_REQ_EVENT.

This patch optimizes a bit the IRR update, avoiding expensive atomic
operations in the common case where PI.ON=0 at vmentry or the PIR vector
is mostly zero.  This saves around 20 cycles per vmexit, as
measured by kvm-unit-tests' inl_from_qemu test (20 runs):

              | enable_apicv=1  |  enable_apicv=0
              | mean     stdev  |  mean     stdev
    ----------|-----------------|------------------
    before    | 5826     32.65  |  5765     47.09
    after     | 5809     43.42  |  5777     77.02

Of course, any change in the right column is just placebo effect. :)
The savings are bigger if interrupts are frequent.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 6 ++++--
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c   | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index 23b99f305382..63a442aefc12 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -342,9 +342,11 @@ void __kvm_apic_update_irr(u32 *pir, void *regs)
 	u32 i, pir_val;
 
 	for (i = 0; i <= 7; i++) {
-		pir_val = xchg(&pir[i], 0);
-		if (pir_val)
+		pir_val = READ_ONCE(pir[i]);
+		if (pir_val) {
+			pir_val = xchg(&pir[i], 0);
 			*((u32 *)(regs + APIC_IRR + i * 0x10)) |= pir_val;
+		}
 	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__kvm_apic_update_irr);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 2577183b40d9..b33eee395b00 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -4854,7 +4854,8 @@ static void vmx_sync_pir_to_irr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
 
-	if (!pi_test_and_clear_on(&vmx->pi_desc))
+	if (!pi_test_on(&vmx->pi_desc) ||
+	    !pi_test_and_clear_on(&vmx->pi_desc))
 		return;
 
 	kvm_apic_update_irr(vcpu, vmx->pi_desc.pir);
-- 
1.8.3.1

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-27 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-27 21:20 [RFC PATCH 0/3] kvm: x86: speedups for APICv Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-27 21:20 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-09-27 21:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] kvm: x86: do not use KVM_REQ_EVENT for APICv interrupt injection Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-27 23:07   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-09-28  8:21     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-28 11:40       ` Wu, Feng
2016-09-28 11:50         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-28 12:06           ` Wu, Feng
2016-09-28 12:14             ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-10-14  7:37           ` Yang Zhang
2016-10-14  8:12             ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-28 13:46       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-09-28 14:08         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-28 10:04   ` Wu, Feng
2016-09-28 10:16     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-28 11:53       ` Wu, Feng
2016-09-28 11:55         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-28 12:07           ` Wu, Feng
2016-10-14  7:12   ` Yang Zhang
2016-09-27 21:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: x86: do not scan IRR twice on APICv vmentry Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-28 14:00   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-09-28 14:44     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-29  2:51   ` Wu, Feng
2016-10-14  7:32   ` Yang Zhang
2016-10-14  7:45     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-29 19:55 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] kvm: x86: speedups for APICv Radim Krčmář
2016-09-29 21:41   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-30 13:23     ` Radim Krčmář
2016-09-30 13:33     ` Radim Krčmář

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