Re: [Qemu-devel] Ideas wiki for GSoC 2010

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On 03/15/2010 10:06 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 03/15/2010 03:23 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 03/15/2010 08:11 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 03/15/2010 03:03 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:

I will add another project - iommu emulation.  Could be very useful
for doing device assignment to nested guests, which could make
testing a lot easier.
Our experiments show that nested device assignment is pretty much
required for I/O performance in nested scenarios.
Really? I did a small test with virtio-blk in a nested guest (disk read with dd, so not a real benchmark) and got a reasonable read-performance
of around 25MB/s from the disk in the l2-guest.


Your guest wasn't doing a zillion VMREADs and VMWRITEs every exit.

I plan to reduce VMREAD/VMWRITE overhead for kvm, but not much we can do for other guests.

VMREAD/VMWRITEs are generally optimized by hypervisors as they tend to be costly. KVM is a bit unusual in terms of how many times the instructions are executed per exit.

Do you know offhand of any unnecessary read/writes? There's update_cr8_intercept(), but on normal exits, I don't see what else we can remove.

Yeah, there are a number of examples.

vmcs_clear_bits() and vmcs_set_bits() read a field of the VMCS and then immediately writes it. This is unnecessary as the same information could be kept in a shadow variable. In vmx_fpu_activate, we call vmcs_clear_bits() followed immediately by vmcs_set_bits(). which means we're reading GUEST_CR0 twice and writing it twice.

vmx_get_rflags() reads from the VMCS and we frequently call get_rflags() followed by a set_rflags() to update a bit. We also don't cache the value between calls and there's a few spots in the code that make multiple calls.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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