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author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2016-09-20 16:15:05 +0200 |
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committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2016-11-03 12:27:51 +0100 |
commit | ad3610919e6f6a4d815c5bf163556b950d6aea56 (patch) | |
tree | 5a2a849d3f1020797701d8a3c993bb4bf342684b /virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | |
parent | 1b07304c587d4fe572ea50bdefaa6047dc9a6d1a (diff) | |
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kvm: x86: avoid atomic operations on APICv vmentry
On some benchmarks (e.g. netperf with ioeventfd disabled), APICv
posted interrupts turn out to be slower than interrupt injection via
KVM_REQ_EVENT.
This patch optimizes a bit the IRR update, avoiding expensive atomic
operations in the common case where PI.ON=0 at vmentry or the PIR vector
is mostly zero. This saves at least 20 cycles (1%) per vmexit, as
measured by kvm-unit-tests' inl_from_qemu test (20 runs):
| enable_apicv=1 | enable_apicv=0
| mean stdev | mean stdev
----------|-----------------|------------------
before | 5826 32.65 | 5765 47.09
after | 5809 43.42 | 5777 77.02
Of course, any change in the right column is just placebo effect. :)
The savings are bigger if interrupts are frequent.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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