Re: [patch 18/18] KVM: x86: update pvclock area conditionally, on cpu migration

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On 11/20/2012 01:58 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> As requested by Glauber, do not update kvmclock area on vcpu->pcpu 
> migration, in case the host has stable TSC. 
> 
> This is to reduce cacheline bouncing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Index: vsyscall/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> ===================================================================
> --- vsyscall.orig/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ vsyscall/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -2615,7 +2615,12 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu 
>  			kvm_x86_ops->write_tsc_offset(vcpu, offset);
>  			vcpu->arch.tsc_catchup = 1;
>  		}
> -		kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_CLOCK_UPDATE, vcpu);
> +		/*
> + 		 * On a host with synchronized TSC, there is no need to update
> + 		 * kvmclock on vcpu->cpu migration
> + 		 */
> +		if (!vcpu->kvm->arch.use_master_clock || vcpu->cpu == -1)
> +			kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_CLOCK_UPDATE, vcpu);
>  		if (vcpu->cpu != cpu)
>  			kvm_migrate_timers(vcpu);
>  		vcpu->cpu = cpu;

Ok. Since you are only touching the one in kvm_arch_vcpu_load() and
leaving the others untouched, it looks correct.

Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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