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authorWanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>2020-03-26 10:20:02 +0800
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2020-03-26 05:58:26 -0400
commitd5361678e63c8a5e72d75cee6d15b840c44306f2 (patch)
treef7ff872c969cbe77c3c7e324302781097c0e3d5e /arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
parent8a1038de11a5536c76054061837b11648bec5b46 (diff)
KVM: X86: Micro-optimize IPI fastpath delay
This patch optimizes the virtual IPI fastpath emulation sequence: write ICR2 send virtual IPI read ICR2 write ICR2 send virtual IPI ==> write ICR write ICR We can observe ~0.67% performance improvement for IPI microbenchmark (https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20171219085010.4081-1-ynorov@caviumnetworks.com/) on Skylake server. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Message-Id: <1585189202-1708-4-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/x86.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/x86.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 62d614586402..6fa014ccd253 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1585,8 +1585,12 @@ static int handle_fastpath_set_x2apic_icr_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 data
((data & APIC_DEST_MASK) == APIC_DEST_PHYSICAL) &&
((data & APIC_MODE_MASK) == APIC_DM_FIXED)) {
+ data &= ~(1 << 12);
+ kvm_apic_send_ipi(vcpu->arch.apic, (u32)data, (u32)(data >> 32));
kvm_lapic_set_reg(vcpu->arch.apic, APIC_ICR2, (u32)(data >> 32));
- return kvm_lapic_reg_write(vcpu->arch.apic, APIC_ICR, (u32)data);
+ kvm_lapic_set_reg(vcpu->arch.apic, APIC_ICR, (u32)data);
+ trace_kvm_apic_write(APIC_ICR, (u32)data);
+ return 0;
}
return 1;