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From: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 22:08:33 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] KVM: Don't redo ktime_get() when calculating halt-polling stop/deadline
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To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>, Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.qemu.devel@gmail.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>, Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>, Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>, Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>, Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>, Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>, Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>, Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@google.com>

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 05:55:26PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Calculate the halt-polling "stop" time using "cur" instead of redoing
> ktime_get().  In the happy case where hardware correctly predicts
> do_halt_poll, "cur" is only a few cycles old.  And if the branch is
> mispredicted, arguably that extra latency should count toward the
> halt-polling time.
> 
> In all likelihood, the numbers involved are in the noise and either
> approach is perfectly ok.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>

> ---
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 2980d2b88559..80f78daa6b8d 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -3267,7 +3267,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_halt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  
>  	start = cur = poll_end = ktime_get();
>  	if (do_halt_poll) {
> -		ktime_t stop = ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), vcpu->halt_poll_ns);
> +		ktime_t stop = ktime_add_ns(cur, vcpu->halt_poll_ns);
>  
>  		do {
>  			/*
> -- 
> 2.33.0.685.g46640cef36-goog
>