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Hook the VMX preemption timer to the "hv timer" functionality added
by the previous patch. This includes: checking if the feature is
supported, if the feature is broken on the CPU, the hooks to
setup/clean the VMX preemption timer, arming the timer on vmentry
and handling the vmexit.
A module parameter states if the VMX preemption timer should be
utilized.
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
[Move hv_deadline_tsc to struct vcpu_vmx, use -1 as the "unset" value.
Put all VMX bits here. Enable it by default #yolo. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Change-Id: Icb8e0b853eedce3d52c394e510fa14d2cdd432e9
upstream-status: backport
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@linux.intel.com>
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The VMX preemption timer can be used to virtualize the TSC deadline timer.
The VMX preemption timer is armed when the vCPU is running, and a VMExit
will happen if the virtual TSC deadline timer expires.
When the vCPU thread is blocked because of HLT, KVM will switch to use
an hrtimer, and then go back to the VMX preemption timer when the vCPU
thread is unblocked.
This solution avoids the complex OS's hrtimer system, and the host
timer interrupt handling cost, replacing them with a little math
(for guest->host TSC and host TSC->preemption timer conversion)
and a cheaper VMexit. This benefits latency for isolated pCPUs.
[A word about performance... Yunhong reported a 30% reduction in average
latency from cyclictest. I made a similar test with tscdeadline_latency
from kvm-unit-tests, and measured
- ~20 clock cycles loss (out of ~3200, so less than 1% but still
statistically significant) in the worst case where the test halts
just after programming the TSC deadline timer
- ~800 clock cycles gain (25% reduction in latency) in the best case
where the test busy waits.
I removed the VMX bits from Yunhong's patch, to concentrate them in the
next patch - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Change-Id: I4aa1ecfa3463d1cbfb317511b45d2074b33d9b6f
upstream-status: backport
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@linux.intel.com>
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are taken from kernel.org, and rt patch from the rt wiki download page.
During the rebasing, the following patch collided:
Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic(I70131fb85).
Collisions have been removed because its logic was found on the
source already.
Change-Id: I7f57a4081d9deaa0d9ccfc41a6c8daccdee3b769
Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
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recently announced rt patch patch-4.1.10-rt10.patch. No further changes
needed.
Change-Id: I9a0cf084498133b10771e744b6da4b29dff706ba
Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
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These changes brings a vanilla kernel from kernel.org, and the patch
applied for rt is patch-4.1.7-rt8.patch. No further changes needed.
Change-Id: Id8dd03c2ddd971e4d1d69b905f3069737053b700
Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
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Import the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as OPNFV kvm base.
It's from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git linux-4.1.y-rt and
the base is:
commit 0917f823c59692d751951bf5ea699a2d1e2f26a2
Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat Jul 25 12:13:34 2015 +0200
Prepare v4.1.3-rt3
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
We lose all the git history this way and it's not good. We
should apply another opnfv project repo in future.
Change-Id: I87543d81c9df70d99c5001fbdf646b202c19f423
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
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