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KVM: PIC: enhance IPI avoidance
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The PIC code makes little effort to avoid kvm_vcpu_kick(), resulting in
unnecessary guest exits in some conditions.

For example, if the timer interrupt is routed through the IOAPIC, IRR
for IRQ 0 will get set but not cleared, since the APIC is handling the
acks.

This means that everytime an interrupt < 16 is triggered, the priority
logic will find IRQ0 pending and send an IPI to vcpu0 (in case IRQ0 is
not masked, which is Linux's case).

Introduce a new variable isr_ack to represent the IRQ's for which the
guest has been signalled / cleared the ISR. Use it to avoid more than
one IPI per trigger-ack cycle, in addition to the avoidance when ISR is
set in get_priority().

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Marcelo Tosatti authored and Avi Kivity committed Oct 15, 2008
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17 changes: 15 additions & 2 deletions arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
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static void pic_clear_isr(struct kvm_kpic_state *s, int irq)
{
s->isr &= ~(1 << irq);
s->isr_ack |= (1 << irq);
}

void kvm_pic_clear_isr_ack(struct kvm *kvm)
{
struct kvm_pic *s = pic_irqchip(kvm);
s->pics[0].isr_ack = 0xff;
s->pics[1].isr_ack = 0xff;
}

/*
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s->irr = 0;
s->imr = 0;
s->isr = 0;
s->isr_ack = 0xff;
s->priority_add = 0;
s->irq_base = 0;
s->read_reg_select = 0;
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{
struct kvm *kvm = opaque;
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = kvm->vcpus[0];
struct kvm_pic *s = pic_irqchip(kvm);
int irq = pic_get_irq(&s->pics[0]);

pic_irqchip(kvm)->output = level;
if (vcpu)
s->output = level;
if (vcpu && level && (s->pics[0].isr_ack & (1 << irq))) {
s->pics[0].isr_ack &= ~(1 << irq);
kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
}
}

struct kvm_pic *kvm_create_pic(struct kvm *kvm)
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
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Expand Up @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ struct kvm_kpic_state {
u8 irr; /* interrupt request register */
u8 imr; /* interrupt mask register */
u8 isr; /* interrupt service register */
u8 isr_ack; /* interrupt ack detection */
u8 priority_add; /* highest irq priority */
u8 irq_base;
u8 read_reg_select;
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void kvm_pic_set_irq(void *opaque, int irq, int level);
int kvm_pic_read_irq(struct kvm *kvm);
void kvm_pic_update_irq(struct kvm_pic *s);
void kvm_pic_clear_isr_ack(struct kvm *kvm);

static inline struct kvm_pic *pic_irqchip(struct kvm *kvm)
{
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
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pr_debug("Set back pending irq %d\n",
pending_vec);
}
kvm_pic_clear_isr_ack(vcpu->kvm);
}

kvm_set_segment(vcpu, &sregs->cs, VCPU_SREG_CS);
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