On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 01:16:59PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The newly-added tracepoint shows the following results on
> the tscdeadline_latency test:
>
> qemu-kvm-8387 [002] 6425.558974: kvm_vcpu_wakeup: poll time
> 10407 ns
> qemu-kvm-8387 [002] 6425.558984: kvm_vcpu_wakeup: poll time 0
> ns
> qemu-kvm-8387 [002] 6425.561242: kvm_vcpu_wakeup: poll time
> 10477 ns
> qemu-kvm-8387 [002] 6425.561251: kvm_vcpu_wakeup: poll time 0
> ns
>
> and so on. This is because we need to go through kvm_vcpu_block again
> after the timer IRQ is injected. Avoid it by polling once before
> entering kvm_vcpu_block.
>
> On my machine (Xeon E5 Sandy Bridge) this removes about 500 cycles (7%)
> from the latency of the TSC deadline timer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 14 +++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 0b8dd13676ef..1e766033ebff 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -6389,11 +6389,15 @@ static inline int __vcpu_run(struct kvm *kvm, struct
> kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> !vcpu->arch.apf.halted)
> return vcpu_enter_guest(vcpu);
>
> - srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu, vcpu->srcu_idx);
> - kvm_vcpu_block(vcpu);
> - vcpu->srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->srcu);
> - if (!kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_UNHALT, vcpu))
> - return 1;
> + if (kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable(vcpu))
> + clear_bit(KVM_REQ_UNHALT, &vcpu->requests);
> + else {
Why the clear_bit? Since only kvm_vcpu_block in the below section
sets it, and that section clears it as well.
Can remove another 300 cycles from do_div when programming LAPIC
tscdeadline timer.
> + srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu, vcpu->srcu_idx);
> + kvm_vcpu_block(vcpu);
> + vcpu->srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->srcu);
> + if (!kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_UNHALT, vcpu))
> + return 1;
> + }
>
> kvm_apic_accept_events(vcpu);
> switch(vcpu->arch.mp_state) {
> --
> 1.8.3.1
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