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Subject[PATCH v3 0/5] KVM: LAPIC: Add APIC Timer periodic/oneshot mode VMX preemption timer support
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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 ~5600+ cycles for each APIC timer periodic mode operation
virtualization.

v3 -> v2:
* fix windows server verison guest boot hang (by adding period check in
start_sw_period and kvm_lapic_expired_hv_timer)

v2 -> v1:
* replace ktime_compare by ktime_after
* introduce advance_periodic_target_expiration() and use it in kvm_lapic_expired_hv_timer()
and in apic_timer_fn()
* don't zero apic->lapic_timer.target_expiration of apic_lvtt_period() when
!kvm_lapic_hv_timer_in_use

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
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 | 207 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h | 2 +
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)

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