Implementation of PV EOI using shared memory.
This reduces the number of exits an interrupt
causes as much as by half.
The idea is simple: there's a bit, per APIC, in guest memory,
that tells the guest that it does not need EOI.
We set it before injecting an interrupt and clear
before injecting a nested one. Guest tests it using
a test and clear operation - this is necessary
so that host can detect interrupt nesting -
and if set, it can skip the EOI MSR.
There's a new MSR to set the address of said register
in guest memory. Otherwise not much changed:
- Guest EOI is not required
- Register is tested & ISR is automatically cleared on exit
For testing results see description of previous patch
'kvm_para: guest side for eoi avoidance'.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We perform ISR lookups twice: during interrupt
injection and on EOI. Typical workloads only have
a single bit set there. So we can avoid ISR scans by
1. counting bits as we set/clear them in ISR
2. on set, caching the injected vector number
3. on clear, invalidating the cache
The real purpose of this is enabling PV EOI
which needs to quickly validate the vector.
But non PV guests also benefit: with this patch,
and without interrupt nesting, apic_find_highest_isr
will always return immediately without scanning ISR.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Instruction emulation for EOI writes can be skipped, since sane
guest simply uses MOV instead of string operations. This is a nice
improvement when guest doesn't support x2apic or hyper-V EOI
support.
a single VM bandwidth is observed with ~8% bandwidth improvement
(7.4Gbps->8Gbps), by saving ~5% cycles from EOI emulation.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
<Based on earlier work from>:
Signed-off-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Access to this page is mostly done through the regs member which holds
the address to this page. The exceptions are in vmx_vcpu_reset() and
kvm_free_lapic() and these both can easily be converted to using regs.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This patch implements MSR interface to local apic as defines by x2apic
Intel specification.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Directed EOI is specified by x2APIC, but is available even when lapic is
in xAPIC mode.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Most of the time IRR is empty, so instead of scanning the whole IRR on
each VM entry keep a variable that tells us if IRR is not empty. IRR
will have to be scanned twice on each IRQ delivery, but this is much
more rare than VM entry.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use kvm_apic_match_dest() in kvm_get_intr_delivery_bitmask() instead
of duplicating the same code. Use kvm_get_intr_delivery_bitmask() in
apic_send_ipi() to figure out ipi destination instead of reimplementing
the logic.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Get rid of ioapic_inj_irq() and ioapic_inj_nmi() functions.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Hide the internals of vcpu awakening / injection from the in-kernel
emulated timers. This makes future changes in this logic easier and
decreases the distance to more generic timer handling.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Simplify LAPIC TMCCT calculation by using hrtimer provided
function to query remaining time until expiration.
Fixes host hang with nested ESX.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Noticed by sparse:
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:1583:6: warning: symbol 'vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:3406:5: warning: symbol 'kvm_task_switch_16' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:3429:5: warning: symbol 'kvm_task_switch_32' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:1968:6: warning: symbol 'kvm_mmu_remove_one_alloc_mmu_page' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:2014:6: warning: symbol 'mmu_destroy_caches' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:862:5: warning: symbol 'kvm_lapic_get_base' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c:94:5: warning: symbol 'pit_get_gate' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c:196:5: warning: symbol '__pit_timer_fn' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c:561:6: warning: symbol '__inject_pit_timer_intr' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This adds a mechanism for exposing the virtual apic tpr to the guest, and a
protocol for letting the guest update the tpr without causing a vmexit if
conditions allow (e.g. there is no interrupt pending with a higher priority
than the new tpr).
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin
Avi Kivity
Liu, Jinsong
Kevin Tian
Takuya Yoshikawa
Gleb Natapov
Marcelo Tosatti
Harvey Harrison
Avi Kivity
Zhang Xiantao