Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] KVM: nVMX: nested VPID emulation

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Ping, :-)
On 10/14/15 12:12 AM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
v2 -> v3:
  * separate nested_vmx_vpid_caps and move checks to patch 3/5,
    only rejoin them when reading the MSR.

v1 -> v2:
  * set bit 32 of the VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP MSR
  * check against the supported types in the implementation of
    the INVVPID instruction
  * the memory operand must always be read even if it isn't needed
    (e.g., for type==global), similar to INVEPT
  * for single-context invalidation to check that VPID != 0, though in
    practice that doesn't matter because we don't want to support
    single-context invalidation
  * don't set msr's ept related bits if !enable_ept


VPID is used to tag address space and avoid a TLB flush. Currently L0 use
the same VPID to run L1 and all its guests. KVM flushes VPID when switching
between L1 and L2.

This patch advertises VPID to the L1 hypervisor, then address space of L1
and L2 can be separately treated and avoid TLB flush when swithing between
L1 and L2. For each nested vmentry, if vpid12 is changed, reuse shadow vpid
w/ an invvpid.

Performance:

run lmbench on L2 w/ 3.5 kernel.

Context switching - times in microseconds - smaller is better
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host                 OS  2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K
                          ctxsw  ctxsw  ctxsw ctxsw  ctxsw   ctxsw   ctxsw
--------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------
kernel    Linux 3.5.0-1 1.2200 1.3700 1.4500 4.7800 2.3300 5.60000 2.88000  nested VPID
kernel    Linux 3.5.0-1 1.2600 1.4300 1.5600   12.7   12.9 3.49000 7.46000  vanilla

Wanpeng Li (5):
   KVM: VMX: adjust interface to allocate/free_vpid
   KVM: VMX: introduce __vmx_flush_tlb to handle specific vpid
   KVM: nVMX: emulate the INVVPID instruction
   KVM: nVMX: nested VPID emulation
   KVM: nVMX: expose VPID capability to L1

  arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h |   1 +
  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c         | 151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
  2 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)


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