IPI and Timer cause the main MSRs write vmexits in cloud environment
observation, let's optimize virtual IPI latency more aggressively to
inject target IPI as soon as possible.
Running kvm-unit-tests/vmexit.flat IPI testing on SKX server, disable
adaptive advance lapic timer and adaptive halt-polling to avoid the
interference, this patch can give another 7% improvement.
w/o fastpath -> x86.c fastpath 4238 -> 3543 16.4%
x86.c fastpath -> vmx.c fastpath 3543 -> 3293 7%
w/o fastpath -> vmx.c fastpath 4238 -> 3293 22.3%
Cc: Haiwei Li <lihaiwei@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20200410174703.1138-3-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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