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Wanpeng Li a9ab13ff6e KVM: X86: Improve latency for single target IPI fastpath
IPI and Timer cause the main MSRs write vmexits in cloud environment
observation, let's optimize virtual IPI latency more aggressively to
inject target IPI as soon as possible.

Running kvm-unit-tests/vmexit.flat IPI testing on SKX server, disable
adaptive advance lapic timer and adaptive halt-polling to avoid the
interference, this patch can give another 7% improvement.

w/o fastpath   -> x86.c fastpath      4238 -> 3543  16.4%
x86.c fastpath -> vmx.c fastpath      3543 -> 3293     7%
w/o fastpath   -> vmx.c fastpath      4238 -> 3293  22.3%

Cc: Haiwei Li <lihaiwei@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20200410174703.1138-3-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-04-21 09:13:10 -04:00
arch KVM: X86: Improve latency for single target IPI fastpath 2020-04-21 09:13:10 -04:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2020-04-01 14:52:59 -07:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-04-01 14:47:40 -07:00
Documentation KVM: nVMX: Remove non-functional "support" for CR3 target values 2020-04-21 09:13:09 -04:00
drivers Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-04-02 13:55:34 -07:00
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include KVM: x86/mmu: Avoid an extra memslot lookup in try_async_pf() for L2 2020-04-21 09:13:08 -04:00
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usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-03-17 09:50:37 +09:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.