[PATCH v6 0/7] Enlightened VMCS support for KVM on Hyper-V

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Tue Mar 20 2018 - 10:02:23 EST


Changes since v5:
- Fix a couple of issues reported by kbuild test robot, both in
PATCH7 (hope Radim's Reviewed-by: stands).

When running nested KVM on Hyper-V it's possible to use so called
'Enlightened VMCS' and do normal memory reads/writes instead of
doing VMWRITE/VMREAD instructions. In addition, clean field mask
provides a huge room for optimization on L0's side.

Tight CPUID loop test shows significant speedup (E5-2667 v4 @ 3.20GHz):
Before: 18890 cycles
After: 8304 cycles

Ladi Prosek (1):
x86/kvm: rename HV_X64_MSR_APIC_ASSIST_PAGE to
HV_X64_MSR_VP_ASSIST_PAGE

Vitaly Kuznetsov (6):
x86/hyper-v: move hyperv.h out of uapi
x86/hyper-v: move definitions from TLFS to hyperv-tlfs.h
x86/hyper-v: allocate and use Virtual Processor Assist Pages
x86/hyper-v: define struct hv_enlightened_vmcs and clean field bits
x86/hyper-v: detect nested features
x86/kvm: use Enlightened VMCS when running on Hyper-V

MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c | 45 ++-
.../{uapi/asm/hyperv.h => asm/hyperv-tlfs.h} | 295 ++++++++++++++++++-
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
arch/x86/include/asm/mshyperv.h | 94 +-----
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 1 -
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c | 22 +-
arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c | 8 +-
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 301 ++++++++++++++++++-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx_evmcs.h | 324 +++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
drivers/hv/connection.c | 1 -
drivers/hv/hv.c | 1 -
drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h | 1 +
drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 1 -
include/linux/hyperv.h | 1 -
17 files changed, 983 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)
rename arch/x86/include/{uapi/asm/hyperv.h => asm/hyperv-tlfs.h} (65%)
create mode 100644 arch/x86/kvm/vmx_evmcs.h

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