[PATCH v3 2/2] virt: tdx-guest: Poll Quote status with exponential backoff
From: Moe Mahhouk via B4 Relay
Date: Sat Oct 24 2026 - 15:17:30 EST
From: Moe Mahhouk <moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wait_for_quote_completion() sleeps for a full second before it first
checks whether the VMM has completed a GetQuote request, and then
rechecks once per second. Every Quote request therefore takes at least
one second, however quickly the host answers.
With a local Quote Generation Service the VMM completes the request in
a few milliseconds. On an Emerald Rapids host (KVM, QEMU 11.1, Intel
QGS), back-to-back Quote requests through configfs-tsm took 1021-1024 ms
each; with this change they take 6-12 ms at HZ=250. Since quote_lock
serializes requests, the one-second floor also caps a TD at about one
Quote per second, which hurts users that bind a fresh Quote to every
connection, such as attested TLS.
Poll with an exponential backoff instead: double the sleep from 1 ms up
to 100 ms, so that a fast Quote is noticed within a few milliseconds
while a slow one costs at most ten wakeups per second.
msleep_interruptible() rounds up to whole jiffies, so at HZ=250 the 1, 2
and 4 ms steps are one 4 ms tick each. The sleep stays interruptible,
and the timeout becomes a deadline in jiffies.
Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Moe Mahhouk <moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virt/coco/tdx-guest/tdx-guest.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/virt/coco/tdx-guest/tdx-guest.c b/drivers/virt/coco/tdx-guest/tdx-guest.c
index a5a53174f9d9..d58c8eccb26b 100644
--- a/drivers/virt/coco/tdx-guest/tdx-guest.c
+++ b/drivers/virt/coco/tdx-guest/tdx-guest.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/set_memory.h>
#include <linux/io.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
+#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <linux/sockptr.h>
#include <linux/tsm.h>
#include <linux/tsm-mr.h>
@@ -271,18 +272,25 @@ static struct tdx_quote_buf *alloc_quote_buf(void)
*/
static int wait_for_quote_completion(struct tdx_quote_buf *buf, u32 timeout)
{
- int i = 0;
+ unsigned long deadline = jiffies + secs_to_jiffies(timeout);
+ unsigned int sleep_ms = 1;
/*
- * Quote requests usually take a few seconds to complete, so waking up
- * once per second to recheck the status is fine for this use case.
+ * A local Quote Generation Service usually completes the request
+ * within a few milliseconds. Poll with an exponential backoff of up
+ * to 100 ms, so that a fast Quote is noticed promptly while a slow
+ * one costs at most ten wakeups per second. msleep_interruptible()
+ * rounds up to whole jiffies, so the shortest steps take one tick.
*/
- while (buf->status == GET_QUOTE_IN_FLIGHT && i++ < timeout) {
- if (msleep_interruptible(MSEC_PER_SEC))
+ while (READ_ONCE(buf->status) == GET_QUOTE_IN_FLIGHT) {
+ if (time_after(jiffies, deadline))
+ return -ETIMEDOUT;
+ if (msleep_interruptible(sleep_ms))
return -EINTR;
+ sleep_ms = min(2 * sleep_ms, 100U);
}
- return (buf->status == GET_QUOTE_IN_FLIGHT) ? -ETIMEDOUT : 0;
+ return 0;
}
static int tdx_report_new_locked(struct tsm_report *report)
--
2.34.1