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From: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com,
	vkuznets@redhat.com, sean.j.christopherson@intel.com,
	wanpengli@tencent.com, jmattson@google.com, joro@8bytes.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 0/2] KVM: deliver IOAPIC scan request only to the target vCPUs
Date: Wed,  6 Nov 2019 08:36:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1573047398-7665-1-git-send-email-nitesh@redhat.com> (raw)

IOAPIC scan requests with fixed delivery mode should only be delivered to the vCPUs
specified by the destination ID.
The second patch in this patch-set introduces an additional
kvm_get_dest_vcpus_mask() API which retrieves a bitmap with bits set for each
target vCPUs. This bitmap is later passed on to the kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask().

I have re-used the patch sent by Radim Krčmář, which adds the support to
remember the position of each vCPUs in kvm->vcpus array.
As I needed to find out the vCPUs index in kvm->vcpus array for setting the
bits in the bitmap corresponding to the target vCPUs.

This support will enable us to reduce the latency overhead on isolated
vCPUs caused by the IPI to process due to KVM_REQ_IOAPIC_SCAN. With the current
implementation, the KVM_REQ_IOAPIC_SCAN is flushed on to all the vCPUs even
if it is meant for just one of them.

Testing:
I have added the support for testing IOAPIC logical and physical destination
mode under Fixed Delivery mode to kvm-unit-test and used it to test this patch.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11230215/

Nitesh Narayan Lal (1):
  KVM: x86: deliver KVM IOAPIC scan request to target vCPUs

Radim Krčmář (1):
  KVM: remember position in kvm->vcpus array

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c           | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c            | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h            |  3 +++
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              |  6 ++++++
 include/linux/kvm_host.h        | 13 +++++-------
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c             | 19 ++++++++++++++++-
 7 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-06 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-06 13:36 Nitesh Narayan Lal [this message]
2019-11-06 13:36 ` [Patch v1 1/2] KVM: remember position in kvm->vcpus array Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-11-06 14:43   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-11-06 15:57     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-11-06 13:36 ` [Patch v1 2/2] KVM: x86: deliver KVM IOAPIC scan request to target vCPUs Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-11-06 15:14   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-11-06 16:20     ` Nitesh Narayan Lal

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