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* [PATCH 0/5] Lazy fpu, cr0.ts
@ 2009-12-30 16:25 Avi Kivity
  2009-12-30 16:25 ` [PATCH 1/5] KVM: VMX: trace clts and lmsw instructions as cr accesses Avi Kivity
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From: Avi Kivity @ 2009-12-30 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Marcelo Tosatti, Sheng Yang, Joerg Roedel; +Cc: kvm

There are currently some inefficiencies in how we virtualize the fpu and cr0:

- we trap changes to cr0.ts unconditionally; however, when the guest fpu
  is loaded, we're not really interested in cr0.ts (it's only needed when
  the host fpu is loaded, to prevent the guest from accessing it)
- we deactivate the fpu on every guest context switch, for no reason at all

Fix these issues by being as lazy as possible: deactivate the fpu at
heavyweight context switch time, and when the fpu is active, give the guest
ownership of cr0.ts.

Joerg, I wasn't able to extend this to svm/npt.  If we switch to the guest
with the host fpu loaded, then we must set cr0.ts and enable cr0 intercepts.
I think this is much more expensive than keeping the guest fpu active at all
times.

Avi Kivity (5):
  KVM: VMX: trace clts and lmsw instructions as cr accesses
  KVM: Replace read accesses of vcpu->arch.cr0 by an accessor
  KVM: VMX: Allow the guest to own some cr0 bits
  KVM: Lazify fpu activation and deactivation
  KVM: VMX: Give the guest ownership of cr0.ts when the fpu is active

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |    3 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c          |    6 ++--
 arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h   |   12 +++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c              |    2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h              |    2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c              |   46 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c              |   48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              |   26 ++++++++++++---------
 8 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)


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2009-12-30 16:25 [PATCH 0/5] Lazy fpu, cr0.ts Avi Kivity
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2009-12-30 16:25 ` [PATCH 2/5] KVM: Replace read accesses of vcpu->arch.cr0 by an accessor Avi Kivity
2009-12-30 16:25 ` [PATCH 3/5] KVM: VMX: Allow the guest to own some cr0 bits Avi Kivity
2009-12-30 16:25 ` [PATCH 4/5] KVM: Lazify fpu activation and deactivation Avi Kivity
2010-01-06  0:25   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-01-06  3:18     ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-06  6:21       ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-06 10:47       ` Joerg Roedel
2010-01-06 11:00         ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-14 13:11   ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-14 13:11     ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-14 14:34       ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2010-01-14 15:04         ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-30 16:25 ` [PATCH 5/5] KVM: VMX: Give the guest ownership of cr0.ts when the fpu is active Avi Kivity
2010-01-06  0:40   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-12-31  9:23 ` [PATCH 0/5] Lazy fpu, cr0.ts Sheng Yang

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