Re: [PATCH v4 7/7] x86/kvm: use Enlightened VMCS when running on Hyper-V

From: Radim KrÄmÃÅ
Date: Fri Mar 16 2018 - 12:06:23 EST


2018-03-16 15:22+0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov:
> Enlightened VMCS is just a structure in memory, the main benefit
> besides avoiding somewhat slower VMREAD/VMWRITE is using clean field
> mask: we tell the underlying hypervisor which fields were modified
> since VMEXIT so there's no need to inspect them all.
>
> Tight CPUID loop test shows significant speedup:
> Before: 18890 cycles
> After: 8304 cycles
>
> Static key is being used to avoid performance penalty for non-Hyper-V
> deployments.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Looks good, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>