v1 -> v2: * enhance allocate/free_vpid to handle shadow vpid * drop empty space * allocate shadow vpid during initialization * For each nested vmentry, if vpid12 is changed, reuse shadow vpid w/ an invvpid.
VPID is used to tag address space and avoid a TLB flush. Currently L0 use the same VPID to run L1 and all its guests. KVM flushes VPID when switching between L1 and L2. This patch advertises VPID to the L1 hypervisor, then address space of L1 and L2 can be separately treated and avoid TLB flush when swithing between L1 and L2. Performance: run lmbench on L2 w/ 3.5 kernel. Context switching - times in microseconds - smaller is better ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Host OS 2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw --------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ------- kernel Linux 3.5.0-1 1.2200 1.3700 1.4500 4.7800 2.3300 5.60000 2.88000 nested VPID kernel Linux 3.5.0-1 1.2600 1.4300 1.5600 12.7 12.9 3.49000 7.46000 vanilla Wanpeng Li (2): KVM: nVMX: enhance allocate/free_vpid to handle shadow vpid KVM: nVMX: nested VPID emulation arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/