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Subject[PATCH] KVM: X86: Reduce the overhead when lapic_timer_advance is disabled
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When I run ebizzy in a 32 vCPUs guest on a 32 pCPUs Xeon box, I can observe 
~8000 kvm_wait_lapic_expire CurAvg/s through kvm_stat tool even if the advance
tscdeadline hrtimer expiration is disabled. Each call to wait_lapic_expire()
will consume ~70 cycles when a timer fires since apic_timer_expire() will
set expired_tscdeadline and then wait_lapic_expire() will do some caculation
before bailing out. So total ~175us per second is lost on this 3.2Ghz machine.
This patch reduces the overhead by skipping the function wait_lapic_expire()
when lapic_timer_advance is disabled.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 50c8361..d1abf13 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -6994,7 +6994,8 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
}

trace_kvm_entry(vcpu->vcpu_id);
- wait_lapic_expire(vcpu);
+ if (lapic_timer_advance_ns)
+ wait_lapic_expire(vcpu);
guest_enter_irqoff();

if (unlikely(vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs)) {
--
2.7.4
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