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* [PATCH RFC V2 0/2] KVM: x86: Support using the VMX preemption timer for APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode
@ 2016-10-12  6:52 Wanpeng Li
  2016-10-12  6:52 ` [PATCH RFC V2 1/2] KVM: lapic: introduce start_sw_period() to handle oneshot/periodic mode Wanpeng Li
  2016-10-12  6:52 ` [PATCH RFC V2 2/2] KVM: x86: Support using the VMX preemption timer for APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode Wanpeng Li
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Wanpeng Li @ 2016-10-12  6:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, kvm
  Cc: Paolo Bonzini, Radim Krčmář, Yunhong Jiang,
	Wanpeng Li

Most windows guests which I have on hand currently still utilize APIC Timer 
periodic/oneshot mode instead of APIC Timer tsc-deadline mode:
- windows 2008 server r2
- windows 2012 server r2
- windows 7
- windows 10 

This patchset adds the support using the VMX preemption timer for APIC Timer 
periodic/oneshot mode. 

I add periodic mode testcase to kvm-unit-tests/apic.flat and observed that w/ patch 
the latency is ~13% of w/o patch. I think maybe something is still not right in the 
patchset. Your comments to improve the patchset is a great appreciated.

v1 -> v2:
 * remember the timeout when setting up the timer to get a correct TMCCT
 * move apic->lapic_timer.period/tscdeadline caculations to start_apic_timer()

Wanpeng Li (2):
  KVM: lapic: introduce start_sw_period() to handle oneshot/periodic mode
  KVM: x86: Support using the VMX preemption timer for APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode

 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 166 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h |   1 +
 2 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

-- 
1.9.1

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2016-10-12  6:52 [PATCH RFC V2 0/2] KVM: x86: Support using the VMX preemption timer for APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode Wanpeng Li
2016-10-12  6:52 ` [PATCH RFC V2 1/2] KVM: lapic: introduce start_sw_period() to handle oneshot/periodic mode Wanpeng Li
2016-10-12  6:52 ` [PATCH RFC V2 2/2] KVM: x86: Support using the VMX preemption timer for APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode Wanpeng Li
2016-10-12 17:41   ` Radim Krčmář
2016-10-13 11:38     ` Wanpeng Li
2016-10-13 11:52       ` Wanpeng Li

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