| Age | Commit message (Collapse) | Author | |
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| 2018-08-06 | KVM: X86: Implement "send IPI" hypercall | Wanpeng Li | |
| 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. Intel guest can enter x2apic cluster mode when interrupt remmaping is enabled in qemu, however, latest AMD EPYC still just supports xapic mode which can get great improvement by Exit-less IPIs. This patchset lets a guest send multicast IPIs, with at most 128 destinations per hypercall in 64-bit mode and 64 vCPUs per hypercall in 32-bit mode. Hardware: Xeon Skylake 2.5GHz, 2 sockets, 40 cores, 80 threads, the VM is 80 vCPUs, IPI microbenchmark(https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/19/141): x2apic cluster mode, vanilla Dry-run: 0, 2392199 ns Self-IPI: 6907514, 15027589 ns Normal IPI: 223910476, 251301666 ns Broadcast IPI: 0, 9282161150 ns Broadcast lock: 0, 8812934104 ns x2apic cluster mode, pv-ipi Dry-run: 0, 2449341 ns Self-IPI: 6720360, 15028732 ns Normal IPI: 228643307, 255708477 ns Broadcast IPI: 0, 7572293590 ns => 22% performance boost Broadcast lock: 0, 8316124651 ns x2apic physical mode, vanilla Dry-run: 0, 3135933 ns Self-IPI: 8572670, 17901757 ns Normal IPI: 226444334, 255421709 ns Broadcast IPI: 0, 19845070887 ns Broadcast lock: 0, 19827383656 ns x2apic physical mode, pv-ipi Dry-run: 0, 2446381 ns Self-IPI: 6788217, 15021056 ns Normal IPI: 219454441, 249583458 ns Broadcast IPI: 0, 7806540019 ns => 154% performance boost Broadcast lock: 0, 9143618799 ns Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | |||
| 2017-03-28 | KVM: MIPS: Implement HYPCALL emulation | James Hogan | |
| Emulate the HYPCALL instruction added in the VZ ASE and used by the MIPS paravirtualised guest support that is already merged. The new hypcall.c handles arguments and the return value. No actual hypercalls are yet supported, but this still allows us to safely step over hypercalls and set an error code in the return value for forward compatibility. Non-zero HYPCALL codes are not handled. We also document the hypercall ABI which asm/kvm_para.h uses. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org | |||
| 2017-02-07 | KVM: x86: add KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING hypercall | Marcelo Tosatti | |
| Add a hypercall to retrieve the host realtime clock and the TSC value used to calculate that clock read. Used to implement clock synchronization between host and guest. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | |||
| 2013-12-31 | KVM: doc: Fix typo in doc/virtual/kvm | Masanari Iida | |
| Correct spelling typo in Documentations/virtual/kvm Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> | |||
| 2013-12-11 | KVM: s390: diagnose call documentation | Cornelia Huck | |
| Add some further documentation on the DIAGNOSE calls we support. Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> | |||
| 2013-08-26 | Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV ↵ | Raghavendra K T | |
| spinlock KVM_HC_KICK_CPU hypercall added to wakeup halted vcpu in paravirtual spinlock enabled guest. KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT enables guest to check whether pv spinlock can be enabled in guest. Thanks Vatsa for rewriting KVM_HC_KICK_CPU Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> | |||
| 2012-08-13 | KVM: Add documentation on hypercalls | Raghavendra K T | |
| Thanks Alex for KVM_HC_FEATURES inputs and Jan for VAPIC_POLL_IRQ, and Peter (HPA) for suggesting hypercall ABI addition. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> | |||
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