linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: Add PV IPIs support

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:51:14 +0800
From:   Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: Add PV IPIs support

Using hypercall to send IPIs by one vmexit instead of one by one for
xAPIC/x2APIC physical mode and one vmexit per-cluster for x2APIC cluster 
mode. 

Even if enable qemu interrupt remapping and PV TLB Shootdown, I can still 
observe ~14% performance boost by ebizzy benchmark for 64 vCPUs VM, the 
total msr-induced vmexits reduce ~70%.

The patchset implements the PV IPIs for vCPUs <= 64 VM, this is really 
common in cloud environment, after this patchset is applied, I can continue 
to add > 64 vCPUs VM support and that implementation has to introduce more 
complex logic.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>

Wanpeng Li (2):
  KVM: X86: Implement PV IPI in linux guest
  KVM: X86: Implement PV send IPI support

 Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt  |  4 +++
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h |  1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c                | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c                 |  3 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                   | 25 ++++++++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h        |  1 +
 6 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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