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Wanpeng Li authored
'Commit d0659d94 ("KVM: x86: add option to advance tscdeadline hrtimer expiration")' advances the tscdeadline (the timer is emulated by hrtimer) expiration in order that the latency which is incurred by hypervisor (apic_timer_fn -> vmentry) can be avoided. This patch adds the advance tscdeadline expiration support to which the tscdeadline timer is emulated by VMX preemption timer to reduce the hypervisor lantency (handle_preemption_timer -> vmentry). The guest can also set an expiration that is very small (for example in Linux if an hrtimer feeds a expiration in the past); in that case we set delta_tsc to 0, leading to an immediately vmexit when delta_tsc is not bigger than advance ns. This patch can reduce ~63% latency (~4450 cycles to ~1660 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> Signed-off-by:
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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