Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: Get rid of userspace_irqchip_in_use

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:06:09 +0000,
Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@google.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 9:27 AM Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:45:33 +0000,
> > Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@google.com> wrote:
> > >
> > Did you have a chance to check whether this had any negative impact on
> > actual workloads? Since the entry/exit code is a bit of a hot spot,
> > I'd like to make sure we're not penalising the common case (I only
> > wrote this patch while waiting in an airport, and didn't test it at
> > all).
> >
> I ran the kvm selftests, kvm-unit-tests and booted a linux guest to
> test the change and noticed no failures.
> Any specific test you want to try out?

My question is not about failures (I didn't expect any), but
specifically about *performance*, and whether checking the flag
without a static key can lead to any performance drop on the hot path.

Can you please run an exit-heavy workload (such as hackbench, for
example), and report any significant delta you could measure?

Thanks,

	M.

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