The host's FS.base and GS.base rarely change, e.g. ~0.1% of host/guest
swaps on my system. Cache the last value written to the VMCS and skip
the VMWRITE to the associated VMCS fields when loading host state if
the value hasn't changed since the last VMWRITE.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 13 ++++++++++---
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 9f3bd199dc8c..32ed0c154df3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -212,6 +212,8 @@ struct vmcs {
struct vmcs_host_state {
unsigned long cr3; /* May not match real cr3 */
unsigned long cr4; /* May not match real cr4 */
+ unsigned long gs_base;
+ unsigned long fs_base;
u16 fs_sel, gs_sel, ldt_sel;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
@@ -2633,9 +2635,14 @@ static void vmx_prepare_switch_to_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
vmcs_write16(HOST_GS_SELECTOR, 0);
host_state->gs_sel = gs_sel;
}
-
- vmcs_writel(HOST_FS_BASE, fs_base);
- vmcs_writel(HOST_GS_BASE, gs_base);
+ if (unlikely(fs_base != host_state->fs_base)) {
+ vmcs_writel(HOST_FS_BASE, fs_base);
+ host_state->fs_base = fs_base;
+ }
+ if (unlikely(gs_base != host_state->gs_base)) {
+ vmcs_writel(HOST_GS_BASE, gs_base);
+ host_state->gs_base = gs_base;
+ }
if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MPX))
rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS, vmx->msr_host_bndcfgs);
--
2.18.0
