[PATCH v6 0/4] KVM: X86: Add Paravirt TLB Shootdown

[Wanpeng Li]

Remote flushing api's does a busy wait which is fine in bare-metal
scenario. But with-in the guest, the vcpus might have been pre-empted
or blocked. In this scenario, the initator vcpu would end up
busy-waiting for a long amount of time.

This patch set implements para-virt flush tlbs making sure that it
does not wait for vcpus that are sleeping. And all the sleeping vcpus
flush the tlb on guest enter. Idea was discussed here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/20/157

The best result is achieved when we're overcommiting the host by running 
multiple vCPUs on each pCPU. In this case PV tlb flush avoids touching 
vCPUs which are not scheduled and avoid the wait on the main CPU.

In addition, thanks for commit 9e52fc2b50d ("x86/mm: Enable RCU based 
page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y)")

Testing on a Xeon Gold 6142 2.6GHz 2 sockets, 32 cores, 64 threads,
so 64 pCPUs, and each VM is 64 vCPUs.

ebizzy -M 
              vanilla    optimized     boost
1VM            46799         48670        4%
2VM            23962         42691       78%
3VM            16152         37539      132%

Note: The patchset is not rebased against "locking/qspinlock/x86: Avoid
   test-and-set when PV_DEDICATED is set" v3 since I can still observe a 
   little improvement for 64 vCPUs on 64 pCPUs, it is due to the system 
   is not completely isolated, there are many housekeeping tasks work
   sporadically, and vCPUs are preemted some times, I also confirm this 
   when adding some print to the kvm_flush_tlb_others. After PV_DEDICATED
   is merged, we can disable pv tlb flush when not overcommiting if it 
   is needed. 
   
v5 -> v6:
 * fix the percpu mask 
 * rebase against latest kvm/queue

v4 -> v5:
 * flushmask instead of cpumask

v3 -> v4:
 * use READ_ONCE()
 * use try_cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg
 * add {} to if
 * no FLUSH flags to preserve during set_preempted
 * "KVM: X86" prefix to patch subject

v2 -> v3: 
 * percpu cpumask

v1 -> v2:
 * a new CPUID feature bit
 * fix cmpxchg check
 * use kvm_vcpu_flush_tlb() to get the statistics right
 * just OR the KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED in kvm_steal_time_set_preempted
 * add a new bool argument to kvm_x86_ops->tlb_flush
 * __cpumask_clear_cpu() instead of cpumask_clear_cpu()
 * not put cpumask_t on stack
 * rebase the patchset against "locking/qspinlock/x86: Avoid
   test-and-set when PV_DEDICATED is set" v3


Wanpeng Li (4):
  KVM: X86: Add vCPU running/preempted state
  KVM: X86: Add Paravirt TLB Shootdown
  KVM: X86: introduce invalidate_gpa argument to tlb flush
  KVM: X86: Add flush_on_enter before guest enter

 Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt  |  4 ++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h      |  2 +-
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h |  5 +++++
 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c                | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c                 |  3 ++-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c                   | 14 +++++++-------
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c                   | 21 +++++++++++----------
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                   | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
 8 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

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