From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>, Simon Xiao <sixiao@microsoft.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
"Michael Kelley \(EOSG\)" <Michael.H.Kelley@microsoft.com>,
linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/hyper-v: implement EOI assist
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:27:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9zfh2rr.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190403170309.4107-1-vkuznets@redhat.com>
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> writes:
> Hyper-V TLFS suggests an optimization to avoid imminent VMExit on EOI:
> "The OS performs an EOI by atomically writing zero to the EOI Assist field
> of the virtual VP assist page and checking whether the "No EOI required"
> field was previously zero. If it was, the OS must write to the
> HV_X64_APIC_EOI MSR thereby triggering an intercept into the hypervisor."
>
> Implement the optimization in Linux.
>
Simon, Long,
did you get a chance to run some tests with this?
--
Vitaly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-15 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-03 17:03 [PATCH] x86/hyper-v: implement EOI assist Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-04-15 12:27 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2019-04-16 0:21 ` Long Li
2019-04-16 10:31 ` [tip:x86/platform] x86/hyper-v: Implement " tip-bot for Vitaly Kuznetsov
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