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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com>
Cc: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	Cameron Esfahani <dirty@apple.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] i386: hvf: Implement CPU kick
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:03:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d1d7cf19-d56c-c095-a3b8-45e2be0752ea@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200629113107.GL25104@SPB-NB-133.local>

On 29/06/20 13:31, Roman Bolshakov wrote:
> I implemented what you proposed using VMX-preemption timer in Pin-based
> controls and regular hv_vcpu_run(). It works fine without noticable
> regressions, I'll send that in v2.
> 
> hv_vcpu_run_until() was also evaluated on macOS 10.15.5 but it degrades
> VM performance significantly compared to explicit setting of
> VMX-preepmtion timer value and hv_vcpu_run(). The performance issue was
> observed on Broadwell-based MacBook Air and Ivy Bridge-based MacBook
> Pro.
> 
> macOS 11.0 Beta deprecated hv_vcpu_run() and introduced a special
> declaration for hv_vcpu_run_until(), that's not available 10.15 -
> HV_DEADLINE_FOREVER (UINT64_MAX, which is bigger than maximum value of
> VMX-preeemption counter). Perhaps the performance issue is addressed
> there.

Possibly.  I'm worried that the preemption-timer trick will fail to run
there, but we'll see.

Paolo



  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-29 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-24 22:58 [PATCH 0/8] Improve synchronization between QEMU and HVF Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-24 22:58 ` [PATCH 1/8] i386: hvf: Set env->eip in macvm_set_rip() Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-24 22:58 ` [PATCH 2/8] i386: hvf: Move synchronize functions to sysemu Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-25  7:09   ` Claudio Fontana
2020-06-24 22:58 ` [PATCH 3/8] i386: hvf: Add hvf_cpu_synchronize_pre_loadvm() Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-24 22:58 ` [PATCH 4/8] i386: hvf: Implement CPU kick Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-25  7:07   ` Claudio Fontana
2020-06-25 10:51     ` Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-25 10:28   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-25 15:57     ` Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-25 18:34       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-29 11:31         ` Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-29 13:03           ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2020-06-29 13:29             ` Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-29 13:35               ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-29 14:04                 ` Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-29 14:18                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-30 10:12                     ` Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-30 10:43                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-24 22:58 ` [PATCH 5/8] i386: hvf: Don't duplicate register reset Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-24 22:58 ` [PATCH 6/8] i386: hvf: Drop hvf_reset_vcpu() Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-25 10:31   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-25 12:36     ` Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-25 13:30       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-25 15:02         ` Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-25 18:26           ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-29 12:58         ` Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-24 22:58 ` [PATCH 7/8] i386: hvf: Clean up synchronize functions Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-24 22:58 ` [PATCH 8/8] MAINTAINERS: Add Cameron as HVF co-maintainer Roman Bolshakov
2020-06-25 11:08 ` [PATCH 0/8] Improve synchronization between QEMU and HVF Paolo Bonzini

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