1. 04 Jun, 2018 1 commit
    • Wanpeng Li's avatar
      KVM: VMX: Optimize tscdeadline timer latency · c5ce8235
      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: default avatarWanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
      c5ce8235
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