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2017-03-08Upgrade to 4.4.50-rt62Yunhong Jiang1-21/+45
The current kernel is based on rt kernel v4.4.6-rt14. We will upgrade it to 4.4.50-rt62. The command to achieve it is: a) Clone a git repo from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git b) Get the diff between this two changesets: git diff 640eca2901f3435e616157b11379d3223a44b391 705619beeea1b0b48219a683fd1a901a86fdaf5e where the two commits are: [yjiang5@jnakajim-build linux-stable-rt]$ git show --oneline --name-only 640eca2901f3435e616157b11379d3223a44b391 640eca2901f3 v4.4.6-rt14 localversion-rt [yjiang5@jnakajim-build linux-stable-rt]$ git show --oneline --name-only 705619beeea1b0b48219a683fd1a901a86fdaf5e 705619beeea1 Linux 4.4.50-rt62 localversion-rt c) One patch has been backported thus revert the patch before applying. filterdiff -p1 -x scripts/package/Makefile ~/tmp/v4.4.6-rt14-4.4.50-rt62.diff |patch -p1 --dry-run Upstream status: backport Change-Id: I244d57a32f6066e5a5b9915f9fbf99e7bbca6e01 Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@linux.intel.com>
2016-07-18kvm: vmx: hook preemption timer supportYunhong Jiang1-1/+2
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>
2016-07-18KVM: x86: support using the vmx preemption timer for tsc deadline timerYunhong Jiang1-0/+5
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>
2016-04-13These changes are the raw update to linux-4.4.6-rt14. Kernel sourcesJosé Pekkarinen1-809/+1130
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>
2015-10-19These changes are a raw update to a vanilla kernel 4.1.10, with theJosé Pekkarinen1-1/+1
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>
2015-08-04Add the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as baseYunhong Jiang1-0/+7994
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>