KVM: x86 shared msr infrastructure

The various syscall-related MSRs are fairly expensive to switch.  Currently
we switch them on every vcpu preemption, which is far too often:

- if we're switching to a kernel thread (idle task, threaded interrupt,
  kernel-mode virtio server (vhost-net), for example) and back, then
  there's no need to switch those MSRs since kernel threasd won't
  be exiting to userspace.

- if we're switching to another guest running an identical OS, most likely
  those MSRs will have the same value, so there's little point in reloading
  them.

- if we're running the same OS on the guest and host, the MSRs will have
  identical values and reloading is unnecessary.

This patch uses the new user return notifiers to implement last-minute
switching, and checks the msr values to avoid unnecessary reloading.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Avi Kivity
2009-09-07 11:12:18 +03:00
parent 44ea2b1758
commit 18863bdd60
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@@ -809,4 +809,7 @@ int kvm_cpu_has_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
int kvm_arch_interrupt_allowed(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
int kvm_cpu_get_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *v);
void kvm_define_shared_msr(unsigned index, u32 msr);
void kvm_set_shared_msr(unsigned index, u64 val);
#endif /* _ASM_X86_KVM_HOST_H */