linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/x86/kvm
Michael S. Tsirkin 668fffa3f8 kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests
Guests that are heavy on futexes end up IPI'ing each other a lot. That
can lead to significant slowdowns and latency increase for those guests
when running within KVM.

If only a single guest is needed on a host, we have a lot of spare host
CPU time we can throw at the problem. Modern CPUs implement a feature
called "MWAIT" which allows guests to wake up sleeping remote CPUs without
an IPI - thus without an exit - at the expense of never going out of guest
context.

The decision whether this is something sensible to use should be up to the
VM admin, so to user space. We can however allow MWAIT execution on systems
that support it properly hardware wise.

This patch adds a CAP to user space and a KVM cpuid leaf to indicate
availability of native MWAIT execution. With that enabled, the worst a
guest can do is waste as many cycles as a "jmp ." would do, so it's not
a privilege problem.

We consciously do *not* expose the feature in our CPUID bitmap, as most
people will want to benefit from sleeping vCPUs to allow for over commit.

Reported-by: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
[agraf: fix amd, change commit message]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-04-21 12:50:28 +02:00
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cpuid.c KVM: x86: virtualize cpuid faulting 2017-04-21 12:50:06 +02:00
cpuid.h KVM: x86: virtualize cpuid faulting 2017-04-21 12:50:06 +02:00
debugfs.c kvm: x86: export TSC information to user-space 2016-09-16 16:57:48 +02:00
emulate.c KVM: x86: virtualize cpuid faulting 2017-04-21 12:50:06 +02:00
hyperv.c sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
hyperv.h KVM: x86: Hyper-V tsc page setup 2016-09-20 09:26:20 +02:00
i8254.c KVM: x86: Handle the kthread worker using the new API 2016-12-08 15:31:11 +01:00
i8254.h KVM: x86: Handle the kthread worker using the new API 2016-12-08 15:31:11 +01:00
i8259.c KVM: x86: simplify pic_ioport_read() 2017-04-12 20:17:15 +02:00
ioapic.c KVM: x86: rename kvm_vcpu_request_scan_ioapic() 2017-04-12 20:17:14 +02:00
ioapic.h KVM: x86: convert kvm_(set|get)_ioapic() into void 2017-04-12 20:17:14 +02:00
irq_comm.c KVM: x86: use irqchip_kernel() to check for pic+ioapic 2017-04-12 20:17:15 +02:00
irq.c KVM: x86: get rid of pic_irqchip() 2017-04-12 20:17:13 +02:00
irq.h KVM: x86: make kvm_pic_reset() static 2017-04-12 20:17:14 +02:00
Kconfig KVM: x86: drop legacy device assignment 2017-04-07 16:49:00 +02:00
kvm_cache_regs.h KVM, pkeys: add pkeys support for permission_fault 2016-03-22 16:23:37 +01:00
lapic.c KVM: Support vCPU-based gfn->hva cache 2017-02-16 18:42:46 +01:00
lapic.h KVM: x86: preparatory changes for APICv cleanups 2017-02-15 14:54:34 +01:00
Makefile KVM: x86: drop legacy device assignment 2017-04-07 16:49:00 +02:00
mmu_audit.c kvm: rename pfn_t to kvm_pfn_t 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
mmu.c kvm: nVMX: support EPT accessed/dirty bits 2017-04-07 16:49:00 +02:00
mmu.h kvm: nVMX: support EPT accessed/dirty bits 2017-04-07 16:49:00 +02:00
mmutrace.h tracing: Rename ftrace_event.h to trace_events.h 2015-05-13 14:05:12 -04:00
mtrr.c KVM: MTRR: fix kvm_mtrr_check_gfn_range_consistency page fault 2016-07-05 16:14:43 +02:00
page_track.c KVM: x86: cleanup the page tracking SRCU instance 2017-03-28 14:08:02 +02:00
paging_tmpl.h kvm: nVMX: support EPT accessed/dirty bits 2017-04-07 16:49:00 +02:00
pmu_amd.c perf/x86/amd: Make HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES measure L2 2016-09-16 16:19:49 +02:00
pmu_intel.c KVM: x86: Fix typos 2016-06-14 11:16:28 +02:00
pmu.c KVM: x86: never specify a sample period for virtualized in_tx_cp counters 2017-03-01 14:19:46 +01:00
pmu.h KVM: x86/vPMU: Define kvm_pmu_ops to support vPMU function dispatch 2015-06-23 14:12:14 +02:00
svm.c kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests 2017-04-21 12:50:28 +02:00
trace.h KVM: x86: support using the vmx preemption timer for tsc deadline timer 2016-06-16 10:07:48 +02:00
tss.h KVM: x86: hardware task switching support 2008-04-27 12:00:39 +03:00
vmx.c kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests 2017-04-21 12:50:28 +02:00
x86.c kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests 2017-04-21 12:50:28 +02:00
x86.h kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests 2017-04-21 12:50:28 +02:00