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authorWanpeng Li2019-06-11 14:23:49 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini2019-07-02 18:56:04 +0200
commit715062970f3748fbbf55c1a8cb495051760a65c1 (patch)
treea2443ef6acff1492eea3cd89caa7130f6130a88d /arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
parentKVM: X86: Yield to IPI target if necessary (diff)
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KVM: X86: Implement PV sched yield hypercall
The target vCPUs are in runnable state after vcpu_kick and suitable as a yield target. This patch implements the sched yield hypercall. 17% performance increasement of ebizzy benchmark can be observed in an over-subscribe environment. (w/ kvm-pv-tlb disabled, testing TLB flush call-function IPI-many since call-function is not easy to be trigged by userspace workload). Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/x86.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/x86.c21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 721af7b46b24..2e302e977dac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -7193,6 +7193,23 @@ void kvm_vcpu_deactivate_apicv(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
kvm_x86_ops->refresh_apicv_exec_ctrl(vcpu);
}
+static void kvm_sched_yield(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long dest_id)
+{
+ struct kvm_vcpu *target = NULL;
+ struct kvm_apic_map *map;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ map = rcu_dereference(kvm->arch.apic_map);
+
+ if (likely(map) && dest_id <= map->max_apic_id && map->phys_map[dest_id])
+ target = map->phys_map[dest_id]->vcpu;
+
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ if (target)
+ kvm_vcpu_yield_to(target);
+}
+
int kvm_emulate_hypercall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
unsigned long nr, a0, a1, a2, a3, ret;
@@ -7239,6 +7256,10 @@ int kvm_emulate_hypercall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
case KVM_HC_SEND_IPI:
ret = kvm_pv_send_ipi(vcpu->kvm, a0, a1, a2, a3, op_64_bit);
break;
+ case KVM_HC_SCHED_YIELD:
+ kvm_sched_yield(vcpu->kvm, a0);
+ ret = 0;
+ break;
default:
ret = -KVM_ENOSYS;
break;