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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 27/40] KVM: ppc: Stop saving host TLB state
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:46:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222177614-26669-28-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222177614-26669-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>

From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>

We're saving the host TLB state to memory on every exit, but never using it.
Originally I had thought that we'd want to restore host TLB for heavyweight
exits, but that could actually hurt when context switching to an unrelated host
process (i.e. not qemu).

Since this decreases the performance penalty of all exits, this patch improves
guest boot time by about 15%.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h |    2 --
 arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c   |    1 -
 arch/powerpc/kvm/booke_interrupts.S |   17 +++--------------
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 23bad40..dc3a756 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -81,8 +81,6 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
 	struct tlbe shadow_tlb[PPC44x_TLB_SIZE];
 	/* Pages which are referenced in the shadow TLB. */
 	struct page *shadow_pages[PPC44x_TLB_SIZE];
-	/* Copy of the host's TLB. */
-	struct tlbe host_tlb[PPC44x_TLB_SIZE];
 
 	u32 host_stack;
 	u32 host_pid;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
index 92768d3..5940649 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
@@ -356,7 +356,6 @@ int main(void)
 
 	DEFINE(VCPU_HOST_STACK, offsetof(struct kvm_vcpu, arch.host_stack));
 	DEFINE(VCPU_HOST_PID, offsetof(struct kvm_vcpu, arch.host_pid));
-	DEFINE(VCPU_HOST_TLB, offsetof(struct kvm_vcpu, arch.host_tlb));
 	DEFINE(VCPU_SHADOW_TLB, offsetof(struct kvm_vcpu, arch.shadow_tlb));
 	DEFINE(VCPU_GPRS, offsetof(struct kvm_vcpu, arch.gpr));
 	DEFINE(VCPU_LR, offsetof(struct kvm_vcpu, arch.lr));
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke_interrupts.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke_interrupts.S
index 8eaba26..3e88dfa 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke_interrupts.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke_interrupts.S
@@ -342,26 +342,15 @@ lightweight_exit:
 	andc	r6, r5, r6
 	mtmsr	r6
 
-	/* Save the host's non-pinned TLB mappings, and load the guest mappings
-	 * over them. Leave the host's "pinned" kernel mappings in place. */
-	/* XXX optimization: use generation count to avoid swapping unmodified
-	 * entries. */
+	/* Load the guest mappings, leaving the host's "pinned" kernel mappings
+	 * in place. */
+	/* XXX optimization: load only modified guest entries. */
 	mfspr	r10, SPRN_MMUCR			/* Save host MMUCR. */
 	lis	r8, tlb_44x_hwater@ha
 	lwz	r8, tlb_44x_hwater@l(r8)
-	addi	r3, r4, VCPU_HOST_TLB - 4
 	addi	r9, r4, VCPU_SHADOW_TLB - 4
 	li	r6, 0
 1:
-	/* Save host entry. */
-	tlbre	r7, r6, PPC44x_TLB_PAGEID
-	mfspr	r5, SPRN_MMUCR
-	stwu	r5, 4(r3)
-	stwu	r7, 4(r3)
-	tlbre	r7, r6, PPC44x_TLB_XLAT
-	stwu	r7, 4(r3)
-	tlbre	r7, r6, PPC44x_TLB_ATTRIB
-	stwu	r7, 4(r3)
 	/* Load guest entry. */
 	lwzu	r7, 4(r9)
 	mtspr	SPRN_MMUCR, r7
-- 
1.6.0.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-23 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-23 13:46 [PATCH 00/40] KVM Updates for 2.6.28 merge window (part 1 of 3) Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 01/40] KVM: VMX: Rename misnamed msr bits Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 02/40] KVM: x86: accessors for guest registers Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 03/40] KVM: Move KVM TRACE DEFINITIONS to common header Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 04/40] KVM: Introduce kvm_set_irq to inject interrupts in guests Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 05/40] KVM: MMU: Separate the code for unlinking a shadow page from its parents Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 06/40] KVM: MMU: Simplify kvm_mmu_zap_page() Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 07/40] KVM: Move NMI IRET fault processing to new vmx_complete_interrupts() Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 08/40] KVM: VMX: Move nmi injection failure processing to vm exit path Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 09/40] KVM: Clear exception queue before emulating an instruction Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 10/40] KVM: VMX: Fix pending exception processing Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 11/40] KVM: Add a pending interrupt queue Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 12/40] KVM: VMX: Move interrupt post-processing to vmx_complete_interrupts() Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 13/40] KVM: VMX: Remove redundant check in handle_rmode_exception Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 14/40] KVM: Consolidate PIC isr clearing into a function Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 15/40] KVM: Consolidate XX_VECTOR defines Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 16/40] KVM: VMX: Reinject real mode exception Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 17/40] KVM: VMX: Unify register save/restore across 32 and 64 bit hosts Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 18/40] KVM: SVM: " Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 19/40] KVM: kvmtrace: Remove use of bit fields in kvm trace structure Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 20/40] KVM: kvmtrace: replace get_cycles with ktime_get v3 Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 21/40] KVM: ppc: enable KVM_TRACE building for powerpc Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 22/40] KVM: ppc: adds trace points for ppc tlb activity Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 23/40] KVM: ppc: trace powerpc instruction emulation Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 24/40] KVM: VMX: Avoid vmwrite(HOST_RSP) when possible Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 25/40] KVM: Ignore DEBUGCTL MSRs with no effect Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 26/40] KVM: ppc: guest breakpoint support Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 28/40] KVM: ppc: Write only modified shadow entries into the TLB on exit Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 29/40] KVM: powerpc: Map guest userspace with TID=0 mappings Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 30/40] KVM: Add irq ack notifier list Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 31/40] KVM: irq ack notification Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 32/40] KVM: PIT: fix injection logic and count Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 33/40] x86: paravirt: factor out cpu_khz to common code Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 34/40] x86: KVM guest: use paravirt function to calculate cpu khz Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 35/40] KVM: direct mmio pfn check Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 36/40] KVM: pci device assignment Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 37/40] KVM: Reduce kvm stack usage in kvm_arch_vm_ioctl() Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 38/40] KVM: Reduce stack usage in kvm_vcpu_ioctl() Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 39/40] KVM: Reduce stack usage in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl() Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 40/40] KVM: Reduce stack usage in kvm_pv_mmu_op() Avi Kivity

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