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    KVM: LAPIC: Optimize timer latency further · b6c4bc65
    Wanpeng Li authored
    Advance lapic timer tries to hidden the hypervisor overhead between the
    host emulated timer fires and the guest awares the timer is fired. However,
    it just hidden the time between apic_timer_fn/handle_preemption_timer ->
    wait_lapic_expire, instead of the real position of vmentry which is
    mentioned in the orignial commit d0659d94 ("KVM: x86: add option to
    advance tscdeadline hrtimer expiration"). There is 700+ cpu cycles between
    the end of wait_lapic_expire and before world switch on my haswell desktop.
    
    This patch tries to narrow the last gap(wait_lapic_expire -> world switch),
    it takes the real overhead time between apic_timer_fn/handle_preemption_timer
    and before world switch into consideration when adaptively tuning timer
    advancement. The patch can reduce 40% latency (~1600+ cycles to ~1000+ cycles
    on a haswell desktop) for kvm-unit-tests/tscdeadline_latency when testing
    busy waits.
    
    Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
    Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
    Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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