Re: [PATCH] KVM: X86: Reduce the overhead when lapic_timer_advance is disabled

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/12/2017 09:15, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> When I run ebizzy in a 32 vCPUs guest on a 32 pCPUs Xeon box, I can observe 
> ~8000 kvm_wait_lapic_expire CurAvg/s through kvm_stat tool even if the advance 
> tscdeadline hrtimer expiration is disabled. Each call to wait_lapic_expire() 
> will consume ~70 cycles when a timer fires since apic_timer_expire() will 
> set expired_tscdeadline and then wait_lapic_expire() will do some caculation 
> before bailing out. So total ~175us per second is lost on this 3.2Ghz machine. 
> This patch reduces the overhead by skipping the function wait_lapic_expire() 
> when lapic_timer_advance is disabled.
> 
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>

Paolo

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 50c8361..d1abf13 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -6994,7 +6994,8 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	}
>  
>  	trace_kvm_entry(vcpu->vcpu_id);
> -	wait_lapic_expire(vcpu);
> +	if (lapic_timer_advance_ns)
> +		wait_lapic_expire(vcpu);
>  	guest_enter_irqoff();
>  
>  	if (unlikely(vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs)) {
>