KVM guest: guest side for eoi avoidance
authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:24:34 +0000 (19:24 +0300)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:38:06 +0000 (12:38 +0300)
commitab9cf4996bb989983e73da894b8dd0239aa2c3c2
tree45d97f795e03f8c18f6dc110887f34391cb7a8e5
parent8680b94b0e6046af2644c17313287ec0cb5843dc
KVM guest: guest side for eoi avoidance

The idea is simple: there's a bit, per APIC, in guest memory,
that tells the guest that it does not need EOI.
Guest tests it using a single est and clear operation - this is
necessary so that host can detect interrupt nesting - and if set, it can
skip the EOI MSR.

I run a simple microbenchmark to show exit reduction
(note: for testing, need to apply follow-up patch
'kvm: host side for eoi optimization' + a qemu patch
 I posted separately, on host):

Before:

Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1s':

            47,357 kvm:kvm_entry                                                [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_hypercall                                            [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall                                         [99.98%]
             5,001 kvm:kvm_pio                                                  [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_cpuid                                                [99.98%]
            22,124 kvm:kvm_apic                                                 [99.98%]
            49,849 kvm:kvm_exit                                                 [99.98%]
            21,115 kvm:kvm_inj_virq                                             [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_inj_exception                                        [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_page_fault                                           [99.98%]
            22,937 kvm:kvm_msr                                                  [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_cr                                                   [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_pic_set_irq                                          [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_apic_ipi                                             [99.98%]
            22,207 kvm:kvm_apic_accept_irq                                      [99.98%]
            22,421 kvm:kvm_eoi                                                  [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_pv_eoi                                               [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmrun                                         [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_intercepts                                    [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit                                        [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit_inject                                    [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_intr_vmexit                                    [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_invlpga                                              [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_skinit                                               [99.99%]
                57 kvm:kvm_emulate_insn                                         [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:vcpu_match_mmio                                          [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_userspace_exit                                       [99.99%]
                 2 kvm:kvm_set_irq                                              [99.99%]
                 2 kvm:kvm_ioapic_set_irq                                       [99.99%]
            23,609 kvm:kvm_msi_set_irq                                          [99.99%]
                 1 kvm:kvm_ack_irq                                              [99.99%]
               131 kvm:kvm_mmio                                                 [99.99%]
               226 kvm:kvm_fpu                                                  [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_age_page                                             [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_try_async_get_page                                    [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_doublefault                                    [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_not_present                                    [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_ready                                       [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_completed

       1.002100578 seconds time elapsed

After:

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1s':

            28,354 kvm:kvm_entry                                                [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_hypercall                                            [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall                                         [99.98%]
             1,347 kvm:kvm_pio                                                  [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_cpuid                                                [99.98%]
             1,931 kvm:kvm_apic                                                 [99.98%]
            29,595 kvm:kvm_exit                                                 [99.98%]
            24,884 kvm:kvm_inj_virq                                             [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_inj_exception                                        [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_page_fault                                           [99.98%]
             1,986 kvm:kvm_msr                                                  [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_cr                                                   [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_pic_set_irq                                          [99.98%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_apic_ipi                                             [99.99%]
            25,953 kvm:kvm_apic_accept_irq                                      [99.99%]
            26,132 kvm:kvm_eoi                                                  [99.99%]
            26,593 kvm:kvm_pv_eoi                                               [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmrun                                         [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_intercepts                                    [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit                                        [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit_inject                                    [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_nested_intr_vmexit                                    [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_invlpga                                              [99.99%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_skinit                                               [99.99%]
               284 kvm:kvm_emulate_insn                                         [99.99%]
                68 kvm:vcpu_match_mmio                                          [99.99%]
                68 kvm:kvm_userspace_exit                                       [99.99%]
                 2 kvm:kvm_set_irq                                              [99.99%]
                 2 kvm:kvm_ioapic_set_irq                                       [99.99%]
            28,288 kvm:kvm_msi_set_irq                                          [99.99%]
                 1 kvm:kvm_ack_irq                                              [99.99%]
               131 kvm:kvm_mmio                                                 [100.00%]
               588 kvm:kvm_fpu                                                  [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_age_page                                             [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_try_async_get_page                                    [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_doublefault                                    [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_not_present                                    [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_ready                                       [100.00%]
                 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_completed

       1.002039622 seconds time elapsed

We see that # of exits is almost halved.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c