Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: make vmx_init a late init call to get to init process faster

From: Paul Menzel
Date: Sat Mar 23 2024 - 04:15:45 EST


[CC: Update Colin’s address.]

Am 23.03.24 um 09:05 schrieb Paul Menzel:
From: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>

Making vmx_init a late initcall improves QEMU kernel boot times to
get to the init process. Average of 100 boots, QEMU boot average
reduced from 0.776 seconds to 0.622 seconds (~19.8% faster) on
Alder Lake i9-12900 and ~0.5% faster for non-QEMU UEFI boots.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
[Take patch
https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/linux/commit/797db35496031b19ba37b1639ac5fa5db9159a06
and fix spelling of Alder Lake.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index c37a89eda90f..0a9f4b20fbda 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -8783,4 +8783,4 @@ static int __init vmx_init(void)
kvm_x86_vendor_exit();
return r;
}
-module_init(vmx_init);
+late_initcall(vmx_init)