RE: [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm/arm: New VMID allocator based on asid

[Shameerali Kolothum Thodi]

Hi Marc,

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> From: Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
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> Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm/arm: New VMID allocator based on asid
> 
> Hi,
> 
> RFCv1 --> v2
>    - Dropped "pinned VMID" support for now.
>    - Dropped RFC tag.
> 
> Sanity tested on HiSilicon D06 board.

A gentle ping on this one. Please let me know if you had a chance to look
at this and have any feedback. I could do a rebase to 5.14-rc1 if required.

Thanks,
Shameer

> 
> Thanks,
> Shameer
> 
> History:
> -------
> Please find the RFC series here,
> https://lore.kernel.org/kvmarm/20210506165232.1969-1-shameerali.kolothu
> m.thodi@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> From RFCv1:
> 
> This is based on a suggestion from Will [0] to try out the asid
> based kvm vmid solution as a separate VMID allocator instead of
> the shared lib approach attempted in v4[1].
> 
> The idea is to compare both the approaches and see whether the
> shared lib solution with callbacks make sense or not.
> 
> Though we are not using the pinned vmids yet, patch #2 has
> code for pinned vmid support. This is just to help the comparison.
> 
> Test Setup/Results
> ----------------
> The measurement was made with maxcpus set to 8 and 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 between the current algo and the
> new one are(avg. of 10 runs):
>     - 1.9% less entry/exit from the guest
>     - 0.5% faster
> 
> This is more or less comparable to v4 numbers.
> 
> For the complete series, please see,
> https://github.com/hisilicon/kernel-dev/tree/private-v5.12-rc7-vmid-2nd-rfc
> 
> and for the shared asid lib v4 solution,
> https://github.com/hisilicon/kernel-dev/tree/private-v5.12-rc7-asid-v4
> 
> As you can see there are ofcourse code duplication with this
> approach but may be it is more easy to maintain considering
> the complexity involved.
> 
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210422160846.GB2214@willie-the-truck/
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210414112312.13704-1-shameerali.kolothum.t
> hodi@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Julien Grall (2):
>   arch/arm64: Introduce a capability to tell whether 16-bit VMID is
>     available
>   kvm/arm: Align the VMID allocation with the arm64 ASID one
> 
> Shameer Kolothum (1):
>   kvm/arm: Introduce a new vmid allocator for KVM
> 
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h      |   4 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h     |  10 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h      |   7 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c        |   9 ++
>  arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile               |   2 +-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c                  | 115 ++++----------
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c    |   6 +-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c |   3 +-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/tlb.c         |  10 +-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/tlb.c          |  10 +-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c                  |   1 -
>  arch/arm64/kvm/vmid.c                 | 206
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps              |   1 +
>  13 files changed, 273 insertions(+), 111 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/vmid.c
> 
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