[RFC v2 00/14] kvm/arm: Align the VMID allocation with the arm64 ASID one

From: Julien Grall
Date: Thu Jun 20 2019 - 09:11:39 EST


Hi all,

This patch series is moving out the ASID allocator in a separate file in order
to re-use it for the VMID. The benefits are:
- CPUs are not forced to exit on a roll-over.
- Context invalidation is now per-CPU rather than
broadcasted.

There are no performance regression on the fastpath for ASID allocation.
Actually on the hackbench measurement (300 hackbench) it was .7% faster.

The measurement was made on a Seattle based SoC (8 CPUs), with the
number of VMID limited to 4-bit. The test involves running concurrently 40
guests with 2 vCPUs. Each guest will then execute hackbench 5 times
before exiting.

The performance difference (on 5.1-rc1) between the current algo and the
new one are:
- 2.5% less exit from the guest
- 22.4% more flush, although they are now local rather than broadcasted
- 0.11% faster (just for the record)

The ASID allocator rework to make it generic has been divided in multiple
patches to make the review easier.

Compare to the first RFC, Arm is not duplicated most of the code anymore.
Instead, Arm will build the version from Arm64.

A branch with the patch based on 5.2-rc5 can be found:

http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/julieng/linux-arm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/vmid-rework/rfc-v2

Best regards,

Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Julien Grall (14):
arm64/mm: Introduce asid_info structure and move
asid_generation/asid_map to it
arm64/mm: Move active_asids and reserved_asids to asid_info
arm64/mm: Move bits to asid_info
arm64/mm: Move the variable lock and tlb_flush_pending to asid_info
arm64/mm: Remove dependency on MM in new_context
arm64/mm: Store the number of asid allocated per context
arm64/mm: Introduce NUM_ASIDS
arm64/mm: Split asid_inits in 2 parts
arm64/mm: Split the function check_and_switch_context in 3 parts
arm64/mm: Introduce a callback to flush the local context
arm64: Move the ASID allocator code in a separate file
arm64/lib: asid: Allow user to update the context under the lock
arm/kvm: Introduce a new VMID allocator
kvm/arm: Align the VMID allocation with the arm64 ASID one

arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 2 +-
arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 5 +-
arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h | 1 +
arch/arm/include/asm/lib_asid.h | 81 +++++++++++++++
arch/arm/kvm/Makefile | 1 +
arch/arm/kvm/hyp/tlb.c | 8 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asid.h | 8 ++
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 5 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/lib_asid.h | 81 +++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/tlb.c | 10 +-
arch/arm64/lib/Makefile | 2 +
arch/arm64/lib/asid.c | 191 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/mm/context.c | 205 ++++++--------------------------------
virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 112 +++++++--------------
15 files changed, 447 insertions(+), 267 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/lib_asid.h
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asid.h
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/lib_asid.h
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/lib/asid.c

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