KVM/x86: Reduce retpoline performance impact in slot_handle_level_range(), by always...
authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:39:24 +0000 (23:39 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:42:20 +0000 (15:42 +0100)
commit474bd0b82e24e8b928910aba876c20c49098ae6d
treeb60378bac0e5c6defb4f3cae330f2614699950a0
parentbdc69a2ffa0105c1e736fbe4bfaa0b53bd3e915f
KVM/x86: Reduce retpoline performance impact in slot_handle_level_range(), by always inlining iterator helper methods

commit 928a4c39484281f8ca366f53a1db79330d058401 upstream.

With retpoline, tight loops of "call this function for every XXX" are
very much pessimised by taking a prediction miss *every* time. This one
is by far the biggest contributor to the guest launch time with retpoline.

By marking the iterator slot_handle_…() functions always_inline, we can
ensure that the indirect function call can be optimised away into a
direct call and it actually generates slightly smaller code because
some of the other conditionals can get optimised away too.

Performance is now pretty close to what we see with nospectre_v2 on
the command line.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Filippo Sironi <sironi@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Filippo Sironi <sironi@amazon.de>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: jmattson@google.com
Cc: karahmed@amazon.de
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518305967-31356-4-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c