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Wanpeng Li 1714a4eb6f KVM: LAPIC: Enable timer posted-interrupt only when mwait/hlt is advertised
As commit 0c5f81dad4 ("KVM: LAPIC: Inject timer interrupt via posted
interrupt") mentioned that the host admin should well tune the guest
setup, so that vCPUs are placed on isolated pCPUs, and with several pCPUs
surplus for *busy* housekeeping.  In this setup, it is preferrable to
disable mwait/hlt/pause vmexits to keep the vCPUs in non-root mode.

However, if only some guests isolated and others not, they would not
have any benefit from posted timer interrupts, and at the same time lose
VMX preemption timer fast paths because kvm_can_post_timer_interrupt()
returns true and therefore forces kvm_can_use_hv_timer() to false.

By guaranteeing that posted-interrupt timer is only used if MWAIT or
HLT are done without vmexit, KVM can make a better choice and use the
VMX preemption timer and the corresponding fast paths.

Reported-by: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Message-Id: <1643112538-36743-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2022-02-10 13:50:31 -05:00
arch KVM: LAPIC: Enable timer posted-interrupt only when mwait/hlt is advertised 2022-02-10 13:50:31 -05:00
block block: bio-integrity: Advance seed correctly for larger interval sizes 2022-02-03 21:09:24 -07:00
certs certs: Fix build error when CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY is empty 2022-01-23 00:08:44 +09:00
crypto lib/crypto: blake2s: avoid indirect calls to compression function for Clang CFI 2022-02-04 19:22:32 +01:00
Documentation xen: branch for v5.17-rc3 2022-02-05 10:40:17 -08:00
drivers - Remove a bogus warning introduced by the recent PCI MSI irq affinity 2022-02-06 10:00:40 -08:00
fs Various bug fixes for ext4 fast commit and inline data handling. Also 2022-02-06 10:34:45 -08:00
include Various bug fixes for ext4 fast commit and inline data handling. Also 2022-02-06 10:34:45 -08:00
init lib/stackdepot: allow optional init and stack_table allocation by kvmalloc() 2022-01-22 08:33:37 +02:00
ipc ipc/sem: do not sleep with a spin lock held 2022-02-04 09:25:05 -08:00
kernel perf/urgent contains 3 fixups: 2022-02-06 10:11:14 -08:00
lib lib/crypto: blake2s: avoid indirect calls to compression function for Clang CFI 2022-02-04 19:22:32 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes 2022-02-04 09:25:05 -08:00
net A patch to make it possible to disable zero copy path in the messenger 2022-02-04 09:54:02 -08:00
samples Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2022-01-20 10:41:01 +02:00
scripts ftrace: Have architectures opt-in for mcount build time sorting 2022-01-27 19:15:44 -05:00
security selinux/stable-5.17 PR 20220203 2022-02-03 16:44:12 -08:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v5.17 2022-02-01 16:52:54 +01:00
tools perf tools fixes for v5.17: 1st batch 2022-02-06 10:18:23 -08:00
usr kbuild: remove include/linux/cyclades.h from header file check 2022-01-27 08:51:08 +01:00
virt KVM: Remove unused "kvm" of kvm_make_vcpu_request() 2022-02-10 13:47:15 -05:00
.clang-format genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted 2021-12-16 22:22:20 +01:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Christian Brauner's email address 2022-02-01 11:21:31 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Removing Ohad from remoteproc/rpmsg maintenance 2021-12-08 10:09:40 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS ata fixes for 5.17-rc3 2022-02-04 11:52:37 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.17-rc3 2022-02-06 12:20:50 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.