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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: KVM: PIC: enhance IPI avoidance
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:57:49 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080922165749.GA18733@dmt.cnet> (raw)

KVM: PIC: enhance IPI avoidance

The PIC code makes little effort to avoid kvm_vcpu_kick(), resulting in
unnecessary guest exits in some conditions.

For example, if the timer interrupt is routed through the IOAPIC, IRR
for IRQ 0 will get set but not cleared, since the APIC is handling the
acks.

This means that everytime an interrupt < 16 is triggered, the priority
logic will find IRQ0 pending and send an IPI to vcpu0 (in case IRQ0 is
not masked, which is Linux's case).

Introduce a new variable isr_ack to represent the IRQ's for which the
guest has been signalled / cleared the ISR. Use it to avoid more than
one IPI per trigger-ack cycle, in addition to the avoidance when ISR is
set in get_priority().

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>


Index: kvm/arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
===================================================================
--- kvm.orig/arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
+++ kvm/arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 static void pic_clear_isr(struct kvm_kpic_state *s, int irq)
 {
 	s->isr &= ~(1 << irq);
+	s->isr_ack |= (1 << irq);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -213,6 +214,7 @@ void kvm_pic_reset(struct kvm_kpic_state
 	s->irr = 0;
 	s->imr = 0;
 	s->isr = 0;
+	s->isr_ack = 0xff;
 	s->priority_add = 0;
 	s->irq_base = 0;
 	s->read_reg_select = 0;
@@ -444,10 +446,14 @@ static void pic_irq_request(void *opaque
 {
 	struct kvm *kvm = opaque;
 	struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = kvm->vcpus[0];
+	struct kvm_pic *s = pic_irqchip(kvm);
+	int irq = pic_get_irq(&s->pics[0]);
 
-	pic_irqchip(kvm)->output = level;
-	if (vcpu)
+	s->output = level;
+	if (vcpu && level && (s->pics[0].isr_ack & (1 << irq))) {
+		s->pics[0].isr_ack &= ~(1 << irq);
 		kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
+	}
 }
 
 struct kvm_pic *kvm_create_pic(struct kvm *kvm)
Index: kvm/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
===================================================================
--- kvm.orig/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
+++ kvm/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ struct kvm_kpic_state {
 	u8 irr;		/* interrupt request register */
 	u8 imr;		/* interrupt mask register */
 	u8 isr;		/* interrupt service register */
+	u8 isr_ack;	/* interrupt ack detection */
 	u8 priority_add;	/* highest irq priority */
 	u8 irq_base;
 	u8 read_reg_select;

             reply	other threads:[~2008-09-22 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-22 16:57 Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2008-09-24  3:05 ` KVM: PIC: enhance IPI avoidance David S. Ahern
2008-09-24 12:19 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-24 14:40   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-24 14:49     ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-24 23:28       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-25 10:18         ` Avi Kivity

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