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Michael S. Tsirkin committed ab9cf4996bb
KVM guest: guest side for eoi avoidance
The idea is simple: there's a bit, per APIC, in guest memory,
that tells the guest that it does not need EOI.
Guest tests it using a single est and clear operation - this is
necessary so that host can detect interrupt nesting - and if set, it can
skip the EOI MSR.
I run a simple microbenchmark to show exit reduction
(note: for testing, need to apply follow-up patch
'kvm: host side for eoi optimization' + a qemu patch
I posted separately, on host):
Before:
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1s':
47,357 kvm:kvm_entry [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_hypercall [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall [99.98%]
5,001 kvm:kvm_pio [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_cpuid [99.98%]
22,124 kvm:kvm_apic [99.98%]
49,849 kvm:kvm_exit [99.98%]
21,115 kvm:kvm_inj_virq [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_inj_exception [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_page_fault [99.98%]
22,937 kvm:kvm_msr [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_cr [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_pic_set_irq [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_apic_ipi [99.98%]
22,207 kvm:kvm_apic_accept_irq [99.98%]
22,421 kvm:kvm_eoi [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_pv_eoi [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmrun [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_nested_intercepts [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit_inject [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_nested_intr_vmexit [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_invlpga [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_skinit [99.99%]
57 kvm:kvm_emulate_insn [99.99%]
0 kvm:vcpu_match_mmio [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_userspace_exit [99.99%]
2 kvm:kvm_set_irq [99.99%]
2 kvm:kvm_ioapic_set_irq [99.99%]
23,609 kvm:kvm_msi_set_irq [99.99%]
1 kvm:kvm_ack_irq [99.99%]
131 kvm:kvm_mmio [99.99%]
226 kvm:kvm_fpu [100.00%]
0 kvm:kvm_age_page [100.00%]
0 kvm:kvm_try_async_get_page [100.00%]
0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_doublefault [100.00%]
0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_not_present [100.00%]
0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_ready [100.00%]
0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_completed
1.002100578 seconds time elapsed
After:
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1s':
28,354 kvm:kvm_entry [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_hypercall [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall [99.98%]
1,347 kvm:kvm_pio [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_cpuid [99.98%]
1,931 kvm:kvm_apic [99.98%]
29,595 kvm:kvm_exit [99.98%]
24,884 kvm:kvm_inj_virq [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_inj_exception [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_page_fault [99.98%]
1,986 kvm:kvm_msr [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_cr [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_pic_set_irq [99.98%]
0 kvm:kvm_apic_ipi [99.99%]
25,953 kvm:kvm_apic_accept_irq [99.99%]
26,132 kvm:kvm_eoi [99.99%]
26,593 kvm:kvm_pv_eoi [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmrun [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_nested_intercepts [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit_inject [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_nested_intr_vmexit [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_invlpga [99.99%]
0 kvm:kvm_skinit [99.99%]
284 kvm:kvm_emulate_insn [99.99%]
68 kvm:vcpu_match_mmio [99.99%]
68 kvm:kvm_userspace_exit [99.99%]
2 kvm:kvm_set_irq [99.99%]
2 kvm:kvm_ioapic_set_irq [99.99%]
28,288 kvm:kvm_msi_set_irq [99.99%]
1 kvm:kvm_ack_irq [99.99%]
131 kvm:kvm_mmio [100.00%]
588 kvm:kvm_fpu [100.00%]
0 kvm:kvm_age_page [100.00%]
0 kvm:kvm_try_async_get_page [100.00%]
0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_doublefault [100.00%]
0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_not_present [100.00%]
0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_ready [100.00%]
0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_completed
1.002039622 seconds time elapsed
We see that # of exits is almost halved.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>