KVM: VMX: Optimize posted-interrupt delivery for timer fastpath
authorWanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 06:23:27 +0000 (14:23 +0800)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Fri, 15 May 2020 16:26:20 +0000 (12:26 -0400)
commit379a3c8ee44440d5afa505230ed8cb5b0d0e314b
tree85d3010294ab19df707ea05be9b9863c40e14f02
parent404d5d7bff0d419fe11c7eaebca9ec8f25258f95
KVM: VMX: Optimize posted-interrupt delivery for timer fastpath

While optimizing posted-interrupt delivery especially for the timer
fastpath scenario, I measured kvm_x86_ops.deliver_posted_interrupt()
to introduce substantial latency because the processor has to perform
all vmentry tasks, ack the posted interrupt notification vector,
read the posted-interrupt descriptor etc.

This is not only slow, it is also unnecessary when delivering an
interrupt to the current CPU (as is the case for the LAPIC timer) because
PIR->IRR and IRR->RVI synchronization is already performed on vmentry
Therefore skip kvm_vcpu_trigger_posted_interrupt in this case, and
instead do vmx_sync_pir_to_irr() on the EXIT_FASTPATH_REENTER_GUEST
fastpath as well.

Tested-by: Haiwei Li <lihaiwei@tencent.com>
Cc: Haiwei Li <lihaiwei@tencent.com>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Message-Id: <1588055009-12677-6-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c