[Devel] [PATCH RHEL7 COMMIT] ms/KVM: x86: really disarm lapic timer when clearing TMICT
Konstantin Khorenko
khorenko at virtuozzo.com
Wed Jul 25 18:47:09 MSK 2018
The commit is pushed to "branch-rh7-3.10.0-862.9.1.vz7.63.x-ovz" and will appear at https://src.openvz.org/scm/ovz/vzkernel.git
after rh7-3.10.0-862.9.1.vz7.63.2
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commit 5f1bd493e2d0093c567739251556023a845cd8da
Author: Radim KrÄmáŠ<rkrcmar at redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jul 25 18:47:09 2018 +0300
ms/KVM: x86: really disarm lapic timer when clearing TMICT
preemption timer only looks at tscdeadline and could inject already
disarmed timer.
Signed-off-by: Radim KrÄmáŠ<rkrcmar at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li at hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5d74a6999368ad1991491b1913bb80faf1925e67)
Signed-off-by: Viktor Prutyanov <viktor.prutyanov at virtuozzo.com>
https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-86578
Signed-off-by: Viktor Prutyanov <viktor.prutyanov at virtuozzo.com>
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Patchset description:
Fix guest context switch performance degradation.
https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-86578
Following patches were adopted from mainline kernel to fix guest Windows
context switch performance degradation.
VMX preemption timer support was added in kernel-3.10.0-862.3.2.el7. In this
case, timer incorrectly triggers despite of its disabling and causes extra
VMexit on every context switch. These patches add correct handling of disabled
timer.
Radim KrÄmáŠ(3):
KVM: x86: handle 0 write to TSC_DEADLINE MSR
KVM: x86: really disarm lapic timer when clearing TMICT
KVM: x86: thoroughly disarm LAPIC timer around TSC deadline switch
Wanpeng Li (3):
KVM: LAPIC: Fix lapic timer mode transition
KVM: LAPIC: Introduce limit_periodic_timer_frequency
KVM: LAPIC: Keep timer running when switching between one-shot and
periodic mode
---
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index 4fb6d073a8ce..c03a1658b578 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -1466,8 +1466,10 @@ static bool set_target_expiration(struct kvm_lapic *apic)
apic->lapic_timer.period = (u64)kvm_lapic_get_reg(apic, APIC_TMICT)
* APIC_BUS_CYCLE_NS * apic->divide_count;
- if (!apic->lapic_timer.period)
+ if (!apic->lapic_timer.period) {
+ apic->lapic_timer.tscdeadline = 0;
return false;
+ }
limit_periodic_timer_frequency(apic);
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