KVM: host side for eoi optimization

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>
This commit is contained in:
Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-24 19:25:07 +03:00
committed by Avi Kivity
parent d905c06935
commit ae7a2a3fb6
6 changed files with 193 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -175,6 +175,13 @@ enum {
/* apic attention bits */
#define KVM_APIC_CHECK_VAPIC 0
/*
* The following bit is set with PV-EOI, unset on EOI.
* We detect PV-EOI changes by guest by comparing
* this bit with PV-EOI in guest memory.
* See the implementation in apic_update_pv_eoi.
*/
#define KVM_APIC_PV_EOI_PENDING 1
/*
* We don't want allocation failures within the mmu code, so we preallocate
@@ -484,6 +491,11 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
u64 length;
u64 status;
} osvw;
struct {
u64 msr_val;
struct gfn_to_hva_cache data;
} pv_eoi;
};
struct kvm_lpage_info {