From 54b98bff8ef4ccfc6f638c5ed868d2d51cdde585 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:19:15 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] x86, kvm, vmx: Don't set LOAD_IA32_EFER when host and guest match There's nothing to switch if the host and guest values are the same. I am unable to find evidence that this makes any difference whatsoever. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski [I could see a difference on Nehalem. From 5 runs: userspace exit, guest!=host 12200 11772 12130 12164 12327 userspace exit, guest=host 11983 11780 11920 11919 12040 lightweight exit, guest!=host 3214 3220 3238 3218 3337 lightweight exit, guest=host 3178 3193 3193 3187 3220 This passes the t-test with 99% confidence for userspace exit, 98.5% confidence for lightweight exit. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index 0d25fc16d98b..330a08aa0291 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -1673,7 +1673,9 @@ static bool update_transition_efer(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx, int efer_offset) guest_efer = vmx->vcpu.arch.efer; if (!(guest_efer & EFER_LMA)) guest_efer &= ~EFER_LME; - add_atomic_switch_msr(vmx, MSR_EFER, guest_efer, host_efer); + if (guest_efer != host_efer) + add_atomic_switch_msr(vmx, MSR_EFER, + guest_efer, host_efer); return false; } -- 2.20.1