Commit c8533544 authored Jun 29, 2017 by Wanpeng Li Committed by Paolo Bonzini Jun 29, 2017

KVM: LAPIC: Fix lapic timer injection delay

If the TSC deadline timer is programmed really close to the deadline or
even in the past, the computation in vmx_set_hv_timer will program the
absolute target tsc value to vmcs preemption timer field w/ delta == 0,
then plays a vmentry and an upcoming vmx preemption timer fire vmexit
dance, the lapic timer injection is delayed due to this duration. Actually
the lapic timer which is emulated by hrtimer can handle this correctly.

This patch fixes it by firing the lapic timer and injecting a timer interrupt
immediately during the next vmentry if the TSC deadline timer is programmed
really close to the deadline or even in the past. This saves ~300 cycles on
the tsc_deadline_timer test of apic.flat.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

parent a749e247

arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c

+4 −1

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		@@ -1525,8 +1525,11 @@ static bool start_hv_timer(struct kvm_lapic *apic)
		* the window. For periodic timer, leave the hv timer running for
		* simplicity, and the deadline will be recomputed on the next vmexit.
		*/
		if (!apic_lvtt_period(apic) && atomic_read(&ktimer->pending))
		if (!apic_lvtt_period(apic) && (r \|\| atomic_read(&ktimer->pending))) {
		if (r)
		apic_timer_expired(apic);
		return false;
		}

		trace_kvm_hv_timer_state(apic->vcpu->vcpu_id, true);
		return true;

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -11147,7 +11147,8 @@ static int vmx_set_hv_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 guest_deadline_tsc)
		vmx->hv_deadline_tsc = tscl + delta_tsc;
		vmcs_set_bits(PIN_BASED_VM_EXEC_CONTROL,
		PIN_BASED_VMX_PREEMPTION_TIMER);
		return 0;

		return delta_tsc == 0;
		}

		static void vmx_cancel_hv_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)

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