Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: VMX: Cache IA32_DEBUGCTL in memory

Nadav Amit
2017-12-06T00:15:23Z

Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> wrote:

> 2017-11-29 01:31-0800, Wanpeng Li:
>> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
>>
>> MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR is zeroed on VMEXIT, so it is saved/restored
>> each time during world switch. Jim from Google pointed out that
>> when running schbench in L2, vmx_vcpu_run will occupy 4% cpu time,
>> and the 25% of vmx_vcpu_run cpu time is occupied by get_debugctlmsr().
>> This patch caches the host IA32_DEBUGCTL MSR and saves/restores
>> the host IA32_DEBUGCTL msr when guest/host switches to avoid to
>> save/restore each time during world switch.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
>> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
>> ---
>
> Queued, thanks.
>
> And there is another optimization loosely connected to the "[PATCH v3
> 00/16] Move vcpu_load and vcpu_put calls to arch code" series:
> We only need to read the value for the KVM_RUN ioctl.

Can you add some warning that would fire in some “debug” mode if the cached
value is not identical to the real one?

Thanks,
Nadav