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* Performance overhead of get_cycles_sync
@ 2007-12-11 13:11 Dor Laor
  2007-12-11 13:37 ` Ingo Molnar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Dor Laor @ 2007-12-11 13:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mingo-X9Un+BFzKDI, tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ
  Cc: kvm-devel, Linux Kernel Mailing List

Hi Ingo, Thomas,

In the latest kernel (2.6.24-rc3) I noticed a drastic performance 
decrease for KVM networking.
The reason is many vmexit (exit reason is cpuid instruction) caused by 
calls to gettimeofday that uses tsc sourceclock.
read_tsc calls get_cycles_sync which might call cpuid in order to 
serialize the cpu.

Can you explain why the cpu needs to be serialized for every gettime call?
Do we need to be that accurate? (It will also slightly improve physical 
hosts).
I believe you have a reason and the answer is yes. In that case can you 
replace the serializing instruction
with an instruction that does not trigger vmexit? Maybe use 'ltr' for 
example?

Regards,
Dor.

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2007-12-11 14:27         ` Ingo Molnar
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2007-12-11 20:29                       ` Ingo Molnar
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2007-12-11 15:03             ` Dor Laor
2007-12-11 21:26             ` Joerg Roedel
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2007-12-12  0:19                 ` Dor Laor
2007-12-11 14:14     ` Dor Laor

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