Re: [v5 2/3] KVM: x86: don't setup empty irq routing when KVM_CAP_SPLIT_IRQCHIP

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Mon Jun 10 2024 - 20:26:33 EST


On Mon, May 06, 2024, Yi Wang wrote:
> From: Yi Wang <foxywang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We found that it may cost more than 20 milliseconds very accidentally
> to enable cap of KVM_CAP_SPLIT_IRQCHIP on a host which has many vms
> already.
>
> The reason is that when vmm(qemu/CloudHypervisor) invokes
> KVM_CAP_SPLIT_IRQCHIP kvm will call synchronize_srcu_expedited() and
> might_sleep and kworker of srcu may cost some delay during this period.
>
> As we have set up empty irq routing when creating vm, so this is no
> need now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <foxywang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/irq.h | 1 -
> arch/x86/kvm/irq_comm.c | 5 -----
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 ---
> 3 files changed, 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h b/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
> index c2d7cfe82d00..76d46b2f41dd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
> @@ -106,7 +106,6 @@ void __kvm_migrate_timers(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> int apic_has_pending_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>
> int kvm_setup_default_irq_routing(struct kvm *kvm);
> -int kvm_setup_empty_irq_routing(struct kvm *kvm);
> int kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_lapic *src,
> struct kvm_lapic_irq *irq,
> struct dest_map *dest_map);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/irq_comm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/irq_comm.c
> index 68f3f6c26046..6ee7ca39466e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/irq_comm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/irq_comm.c
> @@ -397,11 +397,6 @@ int kvm_setup_default_irq_routing(struct kvm *kvm)
>
> static const struct kvm_irq_routing_entry empty_routing[] = {};

empty_routing is unused after this patch and can+should be removed, e.g.

arch/x86/kvm/irq_comm.c:398:43: error: ‘empty_routing’ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-const-variable=]
398 | static const struct kvm_irq_routing_entry empty_routing[] = {};

I'll fix this up when applying, too.