Wanpeng Li <kernel...@gmail.com> writes: > From: Wanpeng Li <wanpen...@tencent.com> > > per-vCPU timer_advance_ns should be set to 0 if timer mode is not tscdeadline > otherwise we waste cpu cycles in the function lapic_timer_int_injected(),
lapic_timer_int_injected is just a test, kvm_wait_lapic_expire() (__kvm_wait_lapic_expire()) maybe? > especially on AMD platform which doesn't support tscdeadline mode. We can > reset timer_advance_ns to the initial value if switch back to > tscdealine 'tscdeadline' > timer mode. > > Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpen...@tencent.com> > --- > arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c > index 654649b..abc296d 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c > @@ -1499,10 +1499,16 @@ static void apic_update_lvtt(struct kvm_lapic *apic) > kvm_lapic_set_reg(apic, APIC_TMICT, 0); > apic->lapic_timer.period = 0; > apic->lapic_timer.tscdeadline = 0; > + if (timer_mode == APIC_LVT_TIMER_TSCDEADLINE && > + lapic_timer_advance_dynamic) > + apic->lapic_timer.timer_advance_ns = > LAPIC_TIMER_ADVANCE_NS_INIT; > } > apic->lapic_timer.timer_mode = timer_mode; > limit_periodic_timer_frequency(apic); > } > + if (timer_mode != APIC_LVT_TIMER_TSCDEADLINE && > + lapic_timer_advance_dynamic) > + apic->lapic_timer.timer_advance_ns = 0; > } > > /* -- Vitaly
