[PATCH 0/2] KVM: Protect vCPU's PID with a rwlock

[Sean Christopherson]

Protect vcpu->pid with a rwlock instead of RCU, so that running a vCPU
with a different task doesn't require a full RCU synchronization, which
can introduce a non-trivial amount of jitter, especially on large systems.

I've had this mini-series sitting around for ~2 years, pretty much as-is.
I could have sworn past me thought there was a flaw in using a rwlock, and
so I never posted it, but for the life of me I can't think of any issues.

Extra eyeballs would be much appreciated.

Sean Christopherson (2):
  KVM: Return '0' directly when there's no task to yield to
  KVM: Protect vCPU's "last run PID" with rwlock, not RCU

 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  2 +-
 include/linux/kvm_host.h          |  3 ++-
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c               | 36 +++++++++++++++++--------------
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)


base-commit: 332d2c1d713e232e163386c35a3ba0c1b90df83f
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2.46.0.rc2.264.g509ed76dc8-goog