Re: [PATCH v4] KVM: nVMX: Fully support of nested VMX preemption timer

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Il 16/09/2013 11:09, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:58:12AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>>>  	vmx->__launched = vmx->loaded_vmcs->launched;
>>>>> +	if (is_guest_mode(vcpu) && !(vmx->nested.nested_vmx_exit))
>>>>> +		nested_adjust_preemption_timer(vcpu);
>>>>
>>>> Please leave the assignment to __launched last, since it's already
>>>> initializing the asm below.
>>>>
>>>> I don't like the is_guest_mode check here... Maybe it's
>>>> micro-optimizing, but I wonder if we already do too many checks in
>>>> vmx_vcpu_run...  For example, is_guest_mode could be changed (I think)
>>>> to a check for "vmx->loaded_vmcs == &vmx->vmcs1".
>>>>
>>> Why this will be more efficient that HF_GUEST_MASK check?
>>
>> Because we have already loaded vmx->loaded_vmcs, so it's one memory
>> access less.
>>
> But we will have to load vmx->vmcs1 instead :)

That's not a memory load, it's an add.

> Looks like very minor
> optimization if at all. If we could avoid additional if() at all
> somehow, may be mimicking vcpu->requests in vmx to get rid of most ifs
> there.

Yes.

Paolo

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