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* [PATCH RFC V3 0/6] KVM: LAPIC: Add APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode VMX preemption timer support
@ 2016-10-13 11:34 Wanpeng Li
  2016-10-13 11:34 ` [PATCH RFC V3 1/6] KVM: LAPIC: extract start_sw_period() to handle periodic/oneshot mode Wanpeng Li
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  0 siblings, 7 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Wanpeng Li @ 2016-10-13 11:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, kvm
  Cc: Paolo Bonzini, Radim Krčmář, Yunhong Jiang, Wanpeng Li

Most windows guests which I have on hand currently still utilize APIC Timer 
periodic/oneshot mode instead of APIC Timer tsc-deadline mode:
- windows 2008 server r2
- windows 2012 server r2
- windows 7
- windows 10 

This patchset adds the APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode VMX preemption 
timer support.

I test the patchset by modifying kvm-unit-test/apic.flat to test 10w times 
APIC timer operations (from guest writes LVTT to timer fire and return to 
guest).

The patchset reduces ~300+ clock cycles for each APIC timer oneshot mode 
operation virtualization. However, the performance of periodic mode is 
still bad, so this version is still a RFC. Your comments to improve the 
patchset is a great appreciated.

v2 -> v3:
 * remove kvm_lapic_hv_timer_in_use() check in apic_get_tmcc, replace
   the hritmer_get_remaining() by target_expiration - now
 * rename expired_period to target_expiration
 * introduce set_target_expiration() helper
 * move the checking of minimal period to set_target_expiration()
 * cleanup kvm_get_lapic_target_deadline_tsc()

v1 -> v2:
 * remember the timeout when setting up the timer to get a correct TMCCT
 * move apic->lapic_timer.period/tscdeadline caculations to start_apic_timer()

Wanpeng Li (6):
  KVM: LAPIC: extract start_sw_period() to handle periodic/oneshot mode
  KVM: LAPIC: guarantee the timer is in tsc-deadline mode when rdmsr MSR_IA32_TSCDEADLINE
  KVM: LAPIC: introduce set_target_expiration to set target expiration time
  KVM: LAPIC: introduce kvm_get_lapic_target_expiration_tsc() to get APIC Timer target deadline tsc
  KVM: LAPIC: rename start/cancel_hv_tscdeadline to start/cancel_hv_timer
  KVM: LAPIC: Add APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode VMX preemption timer support

 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 173 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h |   2 +
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c   |   2 +-
 3 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)

-- 
1.9.1

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2016-10-13 11:34 [PATCH RFC V3 0/6] KVM: LAPIC: Add APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode VMX preemption timer support Wanpeng Li
2016-10-13 11:34 ` [PATCH RFC V3 1/6] KVM: LAPIC: extract start_sw_period() to handle periodic/oneshot mode Wanpeng Li
2016-10-13 11:34 ` [PATCH RFC V3 2/6] KVM: LAPIC: guarantee the timer is in tsc-deadline mode when rdmsr MSR_IA32_TSCDEADLINE Wanpeng Li
2016-10-13 11:34 ` [PATCH RFC V3 3/6] KVM: LAPIC: introduce set_target_expiration() to set target expiration time Wanpeng Li
2016-10-13 11:34 ` [PATCH RFC V3 4/6] KVM: LAPIC: introduce kvm_get_lapic_target_expiration_tsc() to get APIC Timer target deadline tsc Wanpeng Li
2016-10-13 11:34 ` [PATCH RFC V3 5/6] KVM: LAPIC: rename start/cancel_hv_tscdeadline to start/cancel_hv_timer Wanpeng Li
2016-10-13 11:34 ` [PATCH RFC V3 6/6] KVM: LAPIC: Add APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode VMX preemption timer support Wanpeng Li
2016-10-13 12:35   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-10-14  1:25     ` Wanpeng Li
2016-10-14 10:05 ` [PATCH RFC V3 0/6] " Wanpeng Li
2016-10-14 11:11   ` Paolo Bonzini
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2016-10-14 12:08       ` Paolo Bonzini

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