[PATCH 2/2] KVM: nVMX: make emulated nested preemption timer pinned

From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Tue Aug 30 2016 - 04:14:45 EST


From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Commit 61abdbe0bc ("kvm: x86: make lapic hrtimer pinned") pins the emulated
lapic timer. This patch does the same for the emulated nested preemption
timer to avoid vmexit an unrelated vCPU and the latency of kicking IPI to
another vCPU.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 5cede40..090a3f8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -7013,7 +7013,7 @@ static int handle_vmon(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
vmx->nested.vmcs02_num = 0;

hrtimer_init(&vmx->nested.preemption_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC,
- HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
+ HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED);
vmx->nested.preemption_timer.function = vmx_preemption_timer_fn;

vmx->nested.vmxon = true;
--
1.9.1