linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Wanpeng Li 1e9e2622a1 KVM: VMX: FIXED+PHYSICAL mode single target IPI fastpath
ICR and TSCDEADLINE MSRs write cause the main MSRs write vmexits in our
product observation, multicast IPIs are not as common as unicast IPI like
RESCHEDULE_VECTOR and CALL_FUNCTION_SINGLE_VECTOR etc.

This patch introduce a mechanism to handle certain performance-critical
WRMSRs in a very early stage of KVM VMExit handler.

This mechanism is specifically used for accelerating writes to x2APIC ICR
that attempt to send a virtual IPI with physical destination-mode, fixed
delivery-mode and single target. Which was found as one of the main causes
of VMExits for Linux workloads.

The reason this mechanism significantly reduce the latency of such virtual
IPIs is by sending the physical IPI to the target vCPU in a very early stage
of KVM VMExit handler, before host interrupts are enabled and before expensive
operations such as reacquiring KVM’s SRCU lock.
Latency is reduced even more when KVM is able to use APICv posted-interrupt
mechanism (which allows to deliver the virtual IPI directly to target vCPU
without the need to kick it to host).

Testing on Xeon Skylake server:

The virtual IPI latency from sender send to receiver receive reduces
more than 200+ cpu cycles.

Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-01-21 13:57:12 +01:00
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alpha alpha: use pgtable-nopud instead of 4level-fixup 2019-12-04 19:44:14 -08:00
arc treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
arm KVM/arm fixes for .5.5, take #1 2019-12-18 17:47:38 +01:00
arm64 mm/memory_hotplug: shrink zones when offlining memory 2020-01-04 13:55:08 -08:00
c6x c6x: use pgtable-nopud instead of 4level-fixup 2019-12-04 19:44:15 -08:00
csky dma-mapping updates for 5.5-rc1 2019-11-28 11:16:43 -08:00
h8300 h8300: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment 2019-11-04 18:12:55 +01:00
hexagon hexagon: define ioremap_uc 2020-01-04 13:55:09 -08:00
ia64 mm/memory_hotplug: shrink zones when offlining memory 2020-01-04 13:55:08 -08:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu 2019-12-05 12:20:42 -08:00
microblaze microblaze: use pgtable-nopmd instead of 4level-fixup 2019-12-04 19:44:15 -08:00
mips A collection of MIPS fixes: 2020-01-04 14:16:57 -08:00
nds32 nds32: use pgtable-nopmd instead of 4level-fixup 2019-12-04 19:44:15 -08:00
nios2 nios2: Fix ioremap 2019-12-12 16:34:33 +08:00
openrisc OpenRISC updates for 5.5 2019-12-02 17:18:43 -08:00
parisc parisc: Fix compiler warnings in debug_core.c 2019-12-20 21:01:42 +01:00
powerpc mm/memory_hotplug: shrink zones when offlining memory 2020-01-04 13:55:08 -08:00
riscv riscv: prefix IRQ_ macro names with an RV_ namespace 2020-01-04 21:48:59 -08:00
s390 mm/memory_hotplug: shrink zones when offlining memory 2020-01-04 13:55:08 -08:00
sh mm/memory_hotplug: shrink zones when offlining memory 2020-01-04 13:55:08 -08:00
sparc treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
um um: add support for folded p4d page tables 2019-12-04 19:44:15 -08:00
unicore32 generic ioremap support 2019-11-28 10:57:12 -08:00
x86 KVM: VMX: FIXED+PHYSICAL mode single target IPI fastpath 2020-01-21 13:57:12 +01:00
xtensa arch: sembuf.h: make uapi asm/sembuf.h self-contained 2019-12-04 19:44:14 -08:00
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Kconfig arch/Kconfig: fix indentation 2019-12-04 19:44:12 -08:00