When waking from a CPU idle instruction (e.g., nap or stop), the sync
for ordering the KVM secondary thread state can be avoided if there
wakeup is coming from a kernel context rather than KVM context.
This improves performance for ping-pong benchmark with the stop0 idle
state by 0.46% for 2 threads in the same core, and 1.02% for different
cores.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S
b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S
index 2f8364e7b489..07a306173c5a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S
@@ -532,6 +532,9 @@ ALT_FTR_SECTION_END_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300)
mr r3,r12
#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
+ lbz r0,HSTATE_HWTHREAD_STATE(r13)
+ cmpwi r0,KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_KERNEL
+ beq 1f
li r0,KVM_HWTHREAD_IN_KERNEL
stb r0,HSTATE_HWTHREAD_STATE(r13)
/* Order setting hwthread_state vs. testing hwthread_req */
--
2.15.0
