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>
This commit is contained in:
Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-20 16:15:05 +02:00
parent 1b07304c58
commit ad3610919e
2 changed files with 17 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -342,9 +342,11 @@ void __kvm_apic_update_irr(u32 *pir, void *regs)
u32 i, pir_val;
for (i = 0; i <= 7; i++) {
pir_val = xchg(&pir[i], 0);
if (pir_val)
pir_val = READ_ONCE(pir[i]);
if (pir_val) {
pir_val = xchg(&pir[i], 0);
*((u32 *)(regs + APIC_IRR + i * 0x10)) |= pir_val;
}
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__kvm_apic_update_irr);