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* [PATCH 0/5] KVM: LAPIC: Add APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode VMX preemption timer support
@ 2016-10-17  7:44 Wanpeng Li
  2016-10-17  7:44 ` [PATCH 1/5] KVM: LAPIC: extract start_sw_period() to handle periodic/oneshot mode Wanpeng Li
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From: Wanpeng Li @ 2016-10-17  7:44 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 APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode VMX preemption
timer support.

I test the patchset by adding kvm-unit-test/apic_timer_latency.flat to test 100 thousands 
times APIC timer operations.

The patchset reduces ~3800+ clock cycles for each APIC timer periodic mode
operation virtualization. 

V1 -> RFC v3:
 * squash patch 3 into patch 6
 * fix switch sw to hv timer

RFC v2 -> RFC v3:
 * remove kvm_lapic_hv_timer_in_use() check in apic_get_tmcc, replace
   the hritmer_get_remaining() by target_expiration - now
 * rename expired_period to target_expiration
 * introduce set_target_expiration() helper
 * move the checking of minimal period to set_target_expiration()
 * cleanup kvm_get_lapic_target_deadline_tsc()

RFC v1 -> RFC 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 (5):
  KVM: LAPIC: extract start_sw_period() to handle periodic/oneshot mode
  KVM: LAPIC: guarantee the timer is in tsc-deadline mode when rdmsr MSR_IA32_TSCDEADLINE
  KVM: LAPIC: introduce kvm_get_lapic_target_expiration_tsc()
  KVM: LAPIC: rename start/cancel_hv_tscdeadline to start/cancel_hv_timer
  KVM: LAPIC: add APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode VMX preemption timer support

 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 193 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h |   2 +
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c   |   2 +-
 3 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)

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1.9.1

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2016-10-17  7:44 ` [PATCH 2/5] KVM: LAPIC: guarantee the timer is in tsc-deadline mode Wanpeng Li
2016-10-17  7:45 ` [PATCH 3/5] KVM: LAPIC: introduce kvm_get_lapic_target_expiration_tsc() Wanpeng Li
2016-10-17  7:45 ` [PATCH 4/5] KVM: LAPIC: rename start/cancel_hv_tscdeadline to start/cancel_hv_timer Wanpeng Li
2016-10-17  7:45 ` [PATCH 5/5] KVM: LAPIC: add APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode VMX preemption timer support Wanpeng Li
2016-10-17  8:45   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-10-19 19:28   ` Radim Krčmář
2016-10-19 22:57     ` Wanpeng Li
2016-10-20 18:10       ` Radim Krčmář
2016-10-21 13:38         ` Wanpeng Li

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