Re: [PATCHv2] kvm: optimize ISR lookups

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Thu May 31 2012 - 06:07:09 EST


On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 05:54:42PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 03:54:56PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > We perform ISR lookups twice: during interrupt
> > injection and on EOI. Typical workloads only have
> > a single bit set there. So we can avoid ISR scans by
> > 1. counting bits as we set/clear them in ISR
> > 2. if count is 1, caching the vector number
> > 3. if count != 1, invalidating the cache
> >
> > The real purpose of this is enabling PV EOI
> > which needs to quickly validate the vector.
> > But non PV guests might also benefit.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > I am well aware of Thomas and Peter's suggestion of reworking APIC
> > register handling in kvm instead of adding a cache like this patch does.
> >
> > This revision does *not* address that comment yet: it only corrects a
> > bug in the original patch.
> >
> > Posting in this form for ease of testing.
> >
> > Changes from v1:
> > replace ASSERT by BUG_ON, correcting inverted logic
> >
> > arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h | 2 +
> > 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> > index 93c1574..0d2985d 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> > @@ -107,6 +107,16 @@ static inline void apic_clear_vector(int vec, void *bitmap)
> > clear_bit(VEC_POS(vec), (bitmap) + REG_POS(vec));
> > }
> >
> > +static inline int __apic_test_and_set_vector(int vec, void *bitmap)
> > +{
> > + return __test_and_set_bit(VEC_POS(vec), (bitmap) + REG_POS(vec));
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline int __apic_test_and_clear_vector(int vec, void *bitmap)
> > +{
> > + return __test_and_clear_bit(VEC_POS(vec), (bitmap) + REG_POS(vec));
> > +}
> > +
> > static inline int apic_hw_enabled(struct kvm_lapic *apic)
> > {
> > return (apic)->vcpu->arch.apic_base & MSR_IA32_APICBASE_ENABLE;
> > @@ -210,6 +220,16 @@ static int find_highest_vector(void *bitmap)
> > return fls(word[word_offset << 2]) - 1 + (word_offset << 5);
> > }
> >
> > +static u8 count_vectors(void *bitmap)
> > +{
> > + u32 *word = bitmap;
> > + int word_offset;
> > + u8 count = 0;
> > + for (word_offset = 0; word_offset < MAX_APIC_VECTOR >> 5; ++word_offset)
> > + count += hweight32(word[word_offset << 2]);
> > + return count;
> > +}
> > +
> > static inline int apic_test_and_set_irr(int vec, struct kvm_lapic *apic)
> > {
> > apic->irr_pending = true;
> > @@ -242,6 +262,25 @@ static inline void apic_clear_irr(int vec, struct kvm_lapic *apic)
> > apic->irr_pending = true;
> > }
> >
> > +static inline void apic_set_isr(int vec, struct kvm_lapic *apic)
> > +{
> > + if (!__apic_test_and_set_vector(vec, apic->regs + APIC_ISR))
> > + ++apic->isr_count;
> > + BUG_ON(apic->isr_count > MAX_APIC_VECTOR);
> > + if (likely(apic->isr_count == 1))
> > + apic->isr_cache = vec;
> > + else
> > + apic->isr_cache = -1;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void apic_clear_isr(int vec, struct kvm_lapic *apic)
> > +{
> > + if (__apic_test_and_clear_vector(vec, apic->regs + APIC_ISR))
> > + --apic->isr_count;
> > + BUG_ON(apic->isr_count < 0);
> > + apic->isr_cache = -1;
> > +}
> > +
> > int kvm_lapic_find_highest_irr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > {
> > struct kvm_lapic *apic = vcpu->arch.apic;
> > @@ -273,6 +312,10 @@ int kvm_apic_set_irq(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_lapic_irq *irq)
> > static inline int apic_find_highest_isr(struct kvm_lapic *apic)
> > {
> > int result;
> > + if (!apic->isr_count)
> > + return -1;
> > + if (likely(apic->isr_cache != -1))
>
> assert(isr_count == 1).
>
> Looks fine otherwise. Gleb can you review please?
I am not convinced we need to keep track of isr_count. isr_cache should be enough.
Why setting isr_cache to -1 if isr_count > 1? Just overwrite isr_cache
values with newly injected vector and use it on next EOI.

--
Gleb.
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