2017-06-30 0:58 GMT+08:00 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>: > This is my take on Wanpeng's optimization, whose effect I've now measured > with vmexit.flat. Indeed, without patch 3 the new tscdeadline_immed > benchmark is 50% slower with preemption_timer=1 than with preemption_timer=0. > > Patch 1 refactors start_hv_timer to prepare for the next one and to > simplify Wanpeng's patch (a lot). Patch 2 avoids a bug that I didn't > catch in my earlier review: kvm_x86_ops->set_timer must not be called > directly when the TSC goes backwards. > The patchset looks good to me and thanks for the benchmark. Regards, Wanpeng Li > > Paolo Bonzini (2): > KVM: lapic: reorganize start_hv_timer > KVM: lapic: reorganize restart_apic_timer > > Wanpeng Li (1): > KVM: LAPIC: Fix lapic timer injection delay > > arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- > arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h | 2 +- > arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 3 +- > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 8 ++-- > 4 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.8.3.1 >