From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Most of the time there's no need to kick the vCPU and deliver the timer
event through kvm_xen_inject_timer_irqs(). Use kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast()
directly from the timer callback, and only fall back to the slow path
when it's necessary to do so.
This gives a significant improvement in timer latency testing (using
nanosleep() for various periods and then measuring the actual time
elapsed).
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/xen.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
index 40edf4d1974c..66c4cf93a55c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
@@ -134,12 +134,23 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart xen_timer_callback(struct hrtimer *timer)
{
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = container_of(timer, struct kvm_vcpu,
arch.xen.timer);
+ struct kvm_xen_evtchn e;
+ int rc;
+
if (atomic_read(&vcpu->arch.xen.timer_pending))
return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
- atomic_inc(&vcpu->arch.xen.timer_pending);
- kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_UNBLOCK, vcpu);
- kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
+ e.vcpu_id = vcpu->vcpu_id;
+ e.vcpu_idx = vcpu->vcpu_idx;
+ e.port = vcpu->arch.xen.timer_virq;
+ e.priority = KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_XEN_EVTCHN_PRIO_2LEVEL;
+
+ rc = kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast(&e, vcpu->kvm);
+ if (rc == -EWOULDBLOCK) {
+ atomic_inc(&vcpu->arch.xen.timer_pending);
+ kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_UNBLOCK, vcpu);
+ kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
+ }
return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
}
--
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