2016-10-24 22:50 GMT+08:00 Radim Krčmář <[email protected]>:
> 2016-10-24 18:23+0800, Wanpeng Li:
>> From: Wanpeng Li <[email protected]>
>>
>> Most windows guests still utilize APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode
>> instead of tsc-deadline mode, and the APIC Timer periodic/oneshot
>> mode are still emulated by high overhead hrtimer on host. This patch
>> converts the expected expire time of the periodic/oneshot mode to
>> guest deadline tsc in order to leverage VMX preemption timer logic
>> for APIC Timer tsc-deadline mode. After each preemption timer vmexit
>> preemption timer is restarted to emulate LVTT current-count register
>> is automatically reloaded from the initial-count register when the
>> count reaches 0. This patch reduces ~5600 cycles for each APIC Timer
>> periodic mode operation virtualization.
>>
>> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Yunhong Jiang <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 117
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>> arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h | 1 +
>> 2 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
>> @@ -2005,8 +2060,12 @@ void kvm_inject_apic_timer_irqs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>
>> if (atomic_read(&apic->lapic_timer.pending) > 0) {
>> kvm_apic_local_deliver(apic, APIC_LVTT);
>> - if (apic_lvtt_tscdeadline(apic))
>> + if (apic_lvtt_period(apic))
>
> This should remain apic_lvtt_tscdeadline(). I can change that when
> applying to kvm/queue.
Thanks Radim, I make a mistake here.
Regards,
Wanpeng Li
>
>> + apic->lapic_timer.tscdeadline = 0;
>> + if (apic_lvtt_oneshot(apic)) {
>> apic->lapic_timer.tscdeadline = 0;
>> + apic->lapic_timer.target_expiration = ktime_set(0, 0);
>> + }
>> atomic_set(&apic->lapic_timer.pending, 0);
>> }
>> }
