> On 8. Feb 2018, at 13:17, David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>
> From: David Woodhouse <d...@amazon.co.uk>
> Subject: [RFC PATCH 2/4] KVM: x86: Reduce retpoline performance impact in
> slot_handle_level_range()
> Date: 7. February 2018 at 01:03:12 GMT+1
> To: t...@linutronix.de, torva...@linux-foundation.org, x...@kernel.org,
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, b...@alien8.de, pet...@infradead.org,
> tim.c.c...@linux.intel.com, dave.han...@intel.com, arjan.van.de....@intel.com
>
>
> 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 <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <d...@amazon.co.uk>
> ---
> 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
+k...@vger.kernel.org
With this patch, launches of "large instances" are pretty close to what we see
with
nospectre_v2 (within tens of milliseconds).
Reviewed-by: Filippo Sironi <sir...@amazon.de>
Tested-by: Filippo Sironi <sir...@amazon.de>
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