linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/43] KVM: Halt-polling and x86 APICv overhaul

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Message-ID: <YXgVIvYhABnrP2Jo@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:48:02 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Cc:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.qemu.devel@...il.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Anup Patel <anup.patel@....com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
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        David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>,
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        Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/43] KVM: Halt-polling and x86 APICv overhaul

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Am 09.10.21 um 04:11 schrieb Sean Christopherson:
> > This is basically two series smushed into one.  The first "half" aims
> > to differentiate between "halt" and a more generic "block", where "halt"
> > aligns with x86's HLT instruction, the halt-polling mechanisms, and
> > associated stats, and "block" means any guest action that causes the vCPU
> > to block/wait.
> > 
> > The second "half" overhauls x86's APIC virtualization code (Posted
> > Interrupts on Intel VMX, AVIC on AMD SVM) to do their updates in response
> > to vCPU (un)blocking in the vcpu_load/put() paths, keying off of the
> > vCPU's rcuwait status to determine when a blocking vCPU is being put and
> > reloaded.  This idea comes from arm64's kvm_timer_vcpu_put(), which I
> > stumbled across when diving into the history of arm64's (un)blocking hooks.
> > 
> > The x86 APICv overhaul allows for killing off several sets of hooks in
> > common KVM and in x86 KVM (to the vendor code).  Moving everything to
> > vcpu_put/load() also realizes nice cleanups, especially for the Posted
> > Interrupt code, which required some impressive mental gymnastics to
> > understand how vCPU task migration interacted with vCPU blocking.
> > 
> > Non-x86 folks, sorry for the noise.  I'm hoping the common parts can get
> > applied without much fuss so that future versions can be x86-only.
> > 
> > v2:
> >   - Collect reviews. [Christian, David]
> >   - Add patch to move arm64 WFI functionality out of hooks. [Marc]
> >   - Add RISC-V to the fun.
> >   - Add all the APICv fun.
> 
> Have we actually followed up on the regression regarding halt_poll_ns=0 no longer disabling
> polling for running systems?

No, I have that conversation flagged but haven't gotten back to it.  I still like
the idea of special casing halt_poll_ns=0 to override the capability.  I can send
a proper patch for that unless there's a different/better idea?