[PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: X86: Don't use PV TLB flush with dedicated vCPUs and steal time disabled

From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Fri Feb 09 2018 - 09:49:21 EST


From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>

vCPUs are very unlikely to get preempted when they are the only task
running on a CPU. PV TLB flush is slower that the native flush in that
case. In addition, avoid traversing all the cpus for pv tlb flush when
steal time is disabled since pv tlb flush depends on the field in steal
time for shared data.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v1 -> v2:
* update to KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED

arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index 7f4c92d..b92311a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -545,7 +545,9 @@ static void __init kvm_guest_init(void)
pv_time_ops.steal_clock = kvm_steal_clock;
}

- if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_TLB_FLUSH))
+ if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_TLB_FLUSH) &&
+ !kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED) &&
+ !kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME))
pv_mmu_ops.flush_tlb_others = kvm_flush_tlb_others;

if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI))
@@ -633,7 +635,9 @@ static __init int kvm_setup_pv_tlb_flush(void)
{
int cpu;

- if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_TLB_FLUSH)) {
+ if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_TLB_FLUSH) &&
+ !kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED) &&
+ !kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME)) {
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
zalloc_cpumask_var_node(per_cpu_ptr(&__pv_tlb_mask, cpu),
GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
--
2.7.4