From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx> 'Commit d0659d946be0 ("KVM: x86: add option to advance tscdeadline hrtimer expiration")' advances the tscdeadline (the timer is emulated by hrtimer) expiration in order that the latency which is incurred by hypervisor (apic_timer_fn -> vmentry) can be avoided. This patch adds the advance tscdeadline expiration support to which the tscdeadline timer is emulated by VMX preemption timer to reduce the hypervisor lantency (handle_preemption_timer -> vmentry). clockevents infrastruture can program minimum delay if hrtimer feeds a expiration in the past, we set delta_tsc to 1(which will be converted to 0 before vmentry) which can lead to an immediately vmexit when delta_tsc is not bigger than advance ns. This patch can reduce ~63% latency (~4450 cycles to ~1660 cycles on a haswell desktop) for kvm-unit-tests/tscdeadline_latency when testing busy waits. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 8 +++++++- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index e50beb7..d8b5110 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -12435,7 +12435,7 @@ static inline int u64_shl_div_u64(u64 a, unsigned int shift, static int vmx_set_hv_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 guest_deadline_tsc) { struct vcpu_vmx *vmx; - u64 tscl, guest_tscl, delta_tsc; + u64 tscl, guest_tscl, delta_tsc, lapic_timer_advance_cycles; if (kvm_mwait_in_guest(vcpu->kvm)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; @@ -12444,6 +12444,12 @@ static int vmx_set_hv_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 guest_deadline_tsc) tscl = rdtsc(); guest_tscl = kvm_read_l1_tsc(vcpu, tscl); delta_tsc = max(guest_deadline_tsc, guest_tscl) - guest_tscl; + lapic_timer_advance_cycles = nsec_to_cycles(vcpu, lapic_timer_advance_ns); + + if (delta_tsc > lapic_timer_advance_cycles) + delta_tsc -= lapic_timer_advance_cycles; + else + delta_tsc = 1; /* Convert to host delta tsc if tsc scaling is enabled */ if (vcpu->arch.tsc_scaling_ratio != kvm_default_tsc_scaling_ratio && diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 22bd20f..d8abd96 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ module_param(tsc_tolerance_ppm, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR); /* lapic timer advance (tscdeadline mode only) in nanoseconds */ unsigned int __read_mostly lapic_timer_advance_ns = 0; module_param(lapic_timer_advance_ns, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR); +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lapic_timer_advance_ns); static bool __read_mostly vector_hashing = true; module_param(vector_hashing, bool, S_IRUGO); -- 2.7.4