linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] LoongArch: KVM: Remove SW timer switch when vcpu is halt polling

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Message-ID: <CAAhV-H6zH7TwcAokHguy5Wk_z44nu6toZ9uW48TxrgxxRrvuJA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 13 Nov 2023 22:36:35 +0800
From:   Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>
To:     Bibo Mao <maobibo@...ngson.cn>
Cc:     Tianrui Zhao <zhaotianrui@...ngson.cn>,
        WANG Xuerui <kernel@...0n.name>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        loongarch@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] LoongArch: KVM: Remove SW timer switch when vcpu
 is halt polling

Hi, Bibo,

Does this series have some relationship with the commit
"LoongArch:LSVZ: set timer offset at first time once" in our internal
repo?

Huacai

On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 5:07 PM Bibo Mao <maobibo@...ngson.cn> wrote:
>
> This patches removes SW timer switch during vcpu block stage. VM uses HW
> timer rather than SW PV timer on LoongArch system, it can check pending
> HW timer interrupt status directly, rather than switch to SW timer and
> check injected SW timer interrupt.
>
> When SW timer is not used in vcpu halt-polling mode, the relative
> SW timer handling before entering guest can be removed also. Timer
> emulation is simpler than before, SW timer emuation is only used in vcpu
> thread context switch.
>
> ---
>
> Changes in v3:
>   Add kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable checking before kvm_vcpu_halt.
>
> Changes in v2:
>   Add halt polling support for idle instruction emulation, using api
> kvm_vcpu_halt rather than kvm_vcpu_block in function kvm_emu_idle.
>
> ---
>
> Bibo Mao (3):
>   LoongArch: KVM: Remove SW timer switch when vcpu is halt polling
>   LoongArch: KVM: Allow to access HW timer CSR registers always
>   LoongArch: KVM: Remove kvm_acquire_timer before entering guest
>
>  arch/loongarch/include/asm/kvm_vcpu.h |  1 -
>  arch/loongarch/kvm/exit.c             | 13 ++------
>  arch/loongarch/kvm/main.c             |  1 -
>  arch/loongarch/kvm/timer.c            | 47 +++++++--------------------
>  arch/loongarch/kvm/vcpu.c             | 38 +++++-----------------
>  5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 305230142ae0637213bf6e04f6d9f10bbcb74af8
> --
> 2.39.3
>