With retpoline, tight loops of "call this function for every XXX" are very much pessimised by taking a prediction miss *every* time. This one showed up very high in our early testing.
By marking the iterator slot_handle_…() functions always_inline, we can ensure that the indirect function call can be optimised away into a direct call and it actually generates slightly smaller code because some of the other conditionals can get optimised away too. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index 2b8eb4d..cc83bdc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -5058,7 +5058,7 @@ void kvm_mmu_uninit_vm(struct kvm *kvm) typedef bool (*slot_level_handler) (struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_rmap_head *rmap_head); /* The caller should hold mmu-lock before calling this function. */ -static bool +static __always_inline bool slot_handle_level_range(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, slot_level_handler fn, int start_level, int end_level, gfn_t start_gfn, gfn_t end_gfn, bool lock_flush_tlb) @@ -5088,7 +5088,7 @@ slot_handle_level_range(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, return flush; } -static bool +static __always_inline bool slot_handle_level(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, slot_level_handler fn, int start_level, int end_level, bool lock_flush_tlb) @@ -5099,7 +5099,7 @@ slot_handle_level(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, lock_flush_tlb); } -static bool +static __always_inline bool slot_handle_all_level(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, slot_level_handler fn, bool lock_flush_tlb) { @@ -5107,7 +5107,7 @@ slot_handle_all_level(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, PT_MAX_HUGEPAGE_LEVEL, lock_flush_tlb); } -static bool +static __always_inline bool slot_handle_large_level(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, slot_level_handler fn, bool lock_flush_tlb) { @@ -5115,7 +5115,7 @@ slot_handle_large_level(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, PT_MAX_HUGEPAGE_LEVEL, lock_flush_tlb); } -static bool +static __always_inline bool slot_handle_leaf(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, slot_level_handler fn, bool lock_flush_tlb) { -- 2.7.4
