KVM: Intelligent device lookup on I/O bus

Currently the method of dealing with an IO operation on a bus (PIO/MMIO)
is to call the read or write callback for each device registered
on the bus until we find a device which handles it.

Since the number of devices on a bus can be significant due to ioeventfds
and coalesced MMIO zones, this leads to a lot of overhead on each IO
operation.

Instead of registering devices, we now register ranges which points to
a device. Lookup is done using an efficient bsearch instead of a linear
search.

Performance test was conducted by comparing exit count per second with
200 ioeventfds created on one byte and the guest is trying to access a
different byte continuously (triggering usermode exits).
Before the patch the guest has achieved 259k exits per second, after the
patch the guest does 274k exits per second.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h b/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
index 53e2d08..2086f2b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ struct kvm_pic {
 	struct kvm *kvm;
 	struct kvm_kpic_state pics[2]; /* 0 is master pic, 1 is slave pic */
 	int output;		/* intr from master PIC */
-	struct kvm_io_device dev;
+	struct kvm_io_device dev_master;
+	struct kvm_io_device dev_slave;
+	struct kvm_io_device dev_eclr;
 	void (*ack_notifier)(void *opaque, int irq);
 	unsigned long irq_states[16];
 };