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From: "Raslan, KarimAllah" <karahmed@amazon.de>
To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"rkrcmar@redhat.com" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] X86/VMX: Disable VMX preemption timer if MWAIT is not intercepted
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:16:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1523362612.5178.7.camel@amazon.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <724738be-2117-3a44-8328-e3ec2f54711f@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 13:07 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 10/04/2018 12:08, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> > 
> > @@ -11908,6 +11908,9 @@ static int vmx_set_hv_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 guest_deadline_tsc)
> >  	u64 guest_tscl = kvm_read_l1_tsc(vcpu, tscl);
> >  	u64 delta_tsc = max(guest_deadline_tsc, guest_tscl) - guest_tscl;
> >  
> > +	if (kvm_pause_in_guest(vcpu->kvm))
> > +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > +
> 
> This is still doing a relatively expensive kvm_read_l1_tsc, so move it
> even further up. :)

hehe .. done in v3 :)

> 
> Paolo
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2018-04-10 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-10 10:08 [PATCH v2] X86/VMX: Disable VMX preemption timer if MWAIT is not intercepted KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-04-10 11:07 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-04-10 12:16   ` Raslan, KarimAllah [this message]

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