On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 20:21, Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Commit 8566ac8b (KVM: SVM: Implement pause loop exit logic in SVM) drops
> > disable pause loop exit/pause filtering capability completely, I guess it
> > is a merge fault by Radim since disable vmexits capabilities and pause
> > loop exit for SVM patchsets are merged at the same time. This patch
> > reintroduces the disable pause loop exit/pause filtering capability
> > support.
> >
> > We can observe 2.9% hackbench improvement for a 92 vCPUs guest on AMD
> > Rome Server.
> >
> > Reported-by: Haiwei Li <lihaiwei@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Haiwei Li <lihaiwei@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 8566ac8b (KVM: SVM: Implement pause loop exit logic in SVM)
> > Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 9 ++++++---
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> > index c0da4dd..c20f127 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> > @@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@ static void init_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> > svm->nested.vmcb = 0;
> > svm->vcpu.arch.hflags = 0;
> >
> > - if (pause_filter_count) {
> > + if (pause_filter_count && !kvm_pause_in_guest(svm->vcpu.kvm)) {
> > control->pause_filter_count = pause_filter_count;
> > if (pause_filter_thresh)
> > control->pause_filter_thresh = pause_filter_thresh;
> > @@ -2693,7 +2693,7 @@ static int pause_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> > struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = &svm->vcpu;
> > bool in_kernel = (svm_get_cpl(vcpu) == 0);
> >
> > - if (pause_filter_thresh)
> > + if (!kvm_pause_in_guest(vcpu->kvm))
> > grow_ple_window(vcpu);
> >
> > kvm_vcpu_on_spin(vcpu, in_kernel);
> > @@ -3780,7 +3780,7 @@ static void svm_handle_exit_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >
> > static void svm_sched_in(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
> > {
> > - if (pause_filter_thresh)
> > + if (!kvm_pause_in_guest(vcpu->kvm))
> > shrink_ple_window(vcpu);
> > }
> >
> > @@ -3958,6 +3958,9 @@ static void svm_vm_destroy(struct kvm *kvm)
> >
> > static int svm_vm_init(struct kvm *kvm)
> > {
> > + if (!pause_filter_thresh)
> > + kvm->arch.pause_in_guest = true;
>
> Would it make sense to do
>
> if (!pause_filter_count || !pause_filter_thresh)
> kvm->arch.pause_in_guest = true;
>
> here and simplify the condition in init_vmcb()?
kvm->arch.pause_in_guest can also be true when userspace sets the
KVM_CAP_X86_DISABLE_EXITS capability, so we can't simplify the
condition in init_vmcb().
Wanpeng
