It recently became apparent[1] that our LPI injection path is not as
efficient as it could be when injecting interrupts coming from a VFIO
assigned device.
Although the proposed patch wasn't 100% correct, it outlined at least
two issues:
(1) Injecting an LPI from VFIO always results in a context switch to a
worker thread: no good
(2) We have no way of amortising the cost of translating a DID+EID pair
to an LPI number
The reason for (1) is that we may sleep when translating an LPI, so we
do need a context process. A way to fix that is to implement a small
LPI translation cache that could be looked up from an atomic
context. It would also solve (2).
This is what this small series proposes. it implements a very basic
LRU cache of pre-translated LPIs, which gets used to implement
kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic. The size of the cache is currently
hard-coded at 4 times the number of vcpus, a number I have randomly
chosen with the utmost care.
Does it work? well, it doesn't crash, and is thus perfect. More
seriously, I don't really have a way to benchmark it directly, so my
observations are indirect:
On a TX2 system, I run a 4 vcpu VM with an Ethernet interface passed
to it directly. From the host, I inject interrupts using debugfs. In
parallel, I look at the number of context switch, and the number of
interrupts on the host. Without this series, I get the same number for
both IRQ and CS (about half a million of each per second is pretty
easy to reach). With this series, the number of context switches drops
to something pretty small (in the low 2k), while the number of
interrupts stays the same.
Yes, this is a pretty rubbish benchmark, what did you expect? ;-)
So I'm putting this out for people with real workloads to try out and
report what they see.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1552833373-19828-1-git-send-email-yuzenghui@xxxxxxxxxx/
Marc Zyngier (8):
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Add LPI translation cache definition
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Add __vgic_put_lpi_locked primitive
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Cache successful MSI->LPI translation
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Add kvm parameter to
vgic_its_free_collection
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Invalidate MSI-LPI translation cache on
specific commands
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Invalidate MSI-LPI translation cache on
disabling LPIs
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Check the LPI translation cache on MSI
injection
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-irqfd: Implement kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic
include/kvm/arm_vgic.h | 10 +++
virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c | 34 ++++++++
virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-irqfd.c | 36 ++++++--
virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c | 4 +-
virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c | 26 ++++--
virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.h | 6 ++
7 files changed, 238 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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