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Paolo Bonzini 09f037aa48 KVM: MMU: speedup update_permission_bitmask
update_permission_bitmask currently does a 128-iteration loop to,
essentially, compute a constant array.  Computing the 8 bits in parallel
reduces it to 16 iterations, and is enough to speed it up substantially
because many boolean operations in the inner loop become constants or
simplify noticeably.

Because update_permission_bitmask is actually the top item in the profile
for nested vmexits, this speeds up an L2->L1 vmexit by about ten thousand
clock cycles, or up to 30%:

                                         before     after
   cpuid                                 35173      25954
   vmcall                                35122      27079
   inl_from_pmtimer                      52635      42675
   inl_from_qemu                         53604      44599
   inl_from_kernel                       38498      30798
   outl_to_kernel                        34508      28816
   wr_tsc_adjust_msr                     34185      26818
   rd_tsc_adjust_msr                     37409      27049
   mmio-no-eventfd:pci-mem               50563      45276
   mmio-wildcard-eventfd:pci-mem         34495      30823
   mmio-datamatch-eventfd:pci-mem        35612      31071
   portio-no-eventfd:pci-io              44925      40661
   portio-wildcard-eventfd:pci-io        29708      27269
   portio-datamatch-eventfd:pci-io       31135      27164

(I wrote a small C program to compare the tables for all values of CR0.WP,
CR4.SMAP and CR4.SMEP, and they match).

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-08-24 18:09:18 +02:00
arch KVM: MMU: speedup update_permission_bitmask 2017-08-24 18:09:18 +02:00
block blk-mq: map queues to all present CPUs 2017-07-24 10:01:31 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - Fix digest_null crash 2017-07-18 17:01:11 +08:00
Documentation media fixes for v4.13-rc2 2017-08-05 14:09:26 -07:00
drivers platform-drivers-x86 for v4.13-4 2017-08-06 16:11:34 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs A large number of ext4 bug fixes and cleanups for v4.13 2017-08-06 12:31:17 -07:00
include KVM: add spinlock optimization framework 2017-08-08 10:57:43 +02:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc: add missing container_of()s for randstruct 2017-08-02 17:16:12 -07:00
kernel Fix compat_sys_sigpending breakage 2017-08-06 11:48:27 -07:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-07-31 22:36:42 -07:00
mm mm: take memory hotplug lock within numa_zonelist_order_handler() 2017-08-02 17:16:11 -07:00
net A bunch of fixes and follow-ups for -rc1 Luminous patches: issues with 2017-08-04 10:15:11 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: fix bpf tunnel cleanup 2017-07-31 22:02:47 -07:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.13: 2017-07-28 17:21:41 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.13 2017-08-02 17:11:45 +02:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-07-31 22:36:42 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt kvm: avoid uninitialized-variable warnings 2017-08-15 18:56:14 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
COPYING
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS KVM: MAINTAINERS improvements 2017-08-11 18:53:18 +02:00
Makefile Linux 4.13-rc4 2017-08-06 18:44:49 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.