Although host side exposes KVM PV SEND IPI feature to guest side,
guest should still have a chance to disable it.
A typicall case of this parameter:
If the host AMD server enables AVIC feature, the flat mode of APIC
get better performance in the guest.
Signed-off-by: zhenwei pi <pizhenwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 43dc35fe5bc0..73b8712b94b0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3495,6 +3495,8 @@
no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
fault handling.
+ no-kvm-pvipi [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM send IPI.
+
no-vmw-sched-clock
[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
clock and use the default one.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index b656456c3a94..911f1cd2bec5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -62,6 +62,17 @@ static int __init parse_no_stealacc(char *arg)
early_param("no-steal-acc", parse_no_stealacc);
+static int kvm_pvipi = 1;
+
+static int __init parse_no_kvm_pvipi(char *arg)
+{
+ kvm_pvipi = 0;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+early_param("no-kvm-pvipi", parse_no_kvm_pvipi);
+
static DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED(struct kvm_vcpu_pv_apf_data, apf_reason) __aligned(64);
DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED(struct kvm_steal_time, steal_time) __aligned(64) __visible;
static int has_steal_clock = 0;
@@ -795,7 +806,7 @@ static uint32_t __init kvm_detect(void)
static void __init kvm_apic_init(void)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- if (pv_ipi_supported())
+ if (pv_ipi_supported() && kvm_pvipi)
kvm_setup_pv_ipi();
#endif
}
--
2.25.1
