From: "Nikunj A. Dadhania" <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: peterz@infradead.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, avi@redhat.com
Cc: raghukt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, alex.shi@intel.com, mingo@elte.hu,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: [PATCH v3 8/8] KVM-doc: Add paravirt tlb flush document
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:19:30 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120731104925.16662.83745.stgit@abhimanyu.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120731104312.16662.27889.stgit@abhimanyu.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikunj A. Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt | 4 ++
Documentation/virtual/kvm/paravirt-tlb-flush.txt | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/kvm/paravirt-tlb-flush.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
index 7304710..92a6af6 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
@@ -256,3 +256,7 @@ MSR_KVM_EOI_EN: 0x4b564d04
guest must both read the least significant bit in the memory area and
clear it using a single CPU instruction, such as test and clear, or
compare and exchange.
+
+MSR_KVM_VCPU_STATE: 0x4b564d05
+
+Refer: Documentation/virtual/kvm/paravirt-tlb-flush.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/paravirt-tlb-flush.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/paravirt-tlb-flush.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0eaabd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/paravirt-tlb-flush.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+KVM - Paravirt TLB Flush
+Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, IBM, 2012
+========================================================
+
+Remote flushing api's does a busy wait which is fine in bare-metal
+scenario. But with-in the guest, the vcpus might have been pre-empted
+or blocked. In this scenario, the initator vcpu would end up
+busy-waiting for a long amount of time.
+
+This would require to have information of guest running/not-running
+within the guest to take a decision. The following MSR introduces vcpu
+running state information.
+
+Using this MSR we have implemented para-virt flush tlbs making sure
+that it does not wait for vcpus that are not-running. And TLB flushing
+for them is deferred, which is done on guest enter.
+
+MSR_KVM_VCPU_STATE: 0x4b564d04
+
+ data: 64-byte alignment physical address of a memory area which must be
+ in guest RAM, plus an enable bit in bit 0. This memory is expected to
+ hold a copy of the following structure:
+
+ struct kvm_steal_time {
+ __u64 state;
+ __u32 pad[14];
+ }
+
+ whose data will be filled in by the hypervisor/guest. Only one
+ write, or registration, is needed for each VCPU. The interval
+ between updates of this structure is arbitrary and
+ implementation-dependent. The hypervisor may update this
+ structure at any time it sees fit until anything with bit0 ==
+ 0 is written to it. Guest is required to make sure this
+ structure is initialized to zero.
+
+ This would enable a VCPU to know running status of sibling
+ VCPUs. The information can further be used to determine if an
+ IPI needs to be send to the non-running VCPU and wait for them
+ unnecessarily. For e.g. flush_tlb_others_ipi.
+
+ Fields have the following meanings:
+
+ state: has bit following fields:
+
+ Bit 0 - vcpu running state. Hypervisor would set vcpu
+ running/not running. Value 1 meaning the vcpu
+ is running and value 0 means vcpu is
+ pre-empted out.
+
+ Bit 1 - hypervisor should flush tlb is set during
+ guest enter/exit
+
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-31 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-31 10:47 [PATCH v3 0/8] KVM paravirt remote flush tlb Nikunj A. Dadhania
2012-07-31 10:47 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] mm, x86: Add HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE support Nikunj A. Dadhania
2012-07-31 10:48 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] mm: Add missing TLB invalidate to RCU page-table freeing Nikunj A. Dadhania
2012-07-31 10:48 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] KVM Guest: Add VCPU running/pre-empted state for guest Nikunj A. Dadhania
2012-07-31 10:48 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] KVM-HV: " Nikunj A. Dadhania
2012-08-02 19:56 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-08-03 5:17 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2012-08-03 5:55 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2012-08-03 17:31 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-08-04 18:33 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2012-07-31 10:48 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] KVM Guest: Add paravirt kvm_flush_tlb_others Nikunj A. Dadhania
2012-07-31 10:49 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] KVM-HV: Add flush_on_enter before guest enter Nikunj A. Dadhania
2012-08-02 20:14 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-08-02 20:16 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-08-03 5:37 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2012-08-03 17:31 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-07-31 10:49 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] Enable HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE for kvm when PARAVIRT_TLB_FLUSH is enabled Nikunj A. Dadhania
2012-07-31 10:49 ` Nikunj A. Dadhania [this message]
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