[PATCH 9/9] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Improve sync_hwstate performance
Christoffer Dall
cdall at linaro.org
Mon Mar 20 03:58:18 PDT 2017
There is no need to call any functions to fold LRs when we don't use any
LRs and we don't need to mess with overflow flags, take spinlocks, or
prune the AP list if the AP list is empty.
Note: list_empty is a single atomic read (uses READ_ONCE) and can
therefore check if a list is empty or not without the need to take the
spinlock protecting the list.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
---
virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
index 093873e..8ecb009 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
@@ -639,15 +639,18 @@ void kvm_vgic_sync_hwstate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
struct vgic_cpu *vgic_cpu = &vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu;
- if (unlikely(!vgic_initialized(vcpu->kvm)))
+ /* An empty ap_list_head implies used_lrs == 0 */
+ if (list_empty(&vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.ap_list_head))
return;
vgic_clear_uie(vcpu);
- vgic_fold_lr_state(vcpu);
- vgic_prune_ap_list(vcpu);
- /* Make sure we can fast-path in flush_hwstate */
- vgic_cpu->used_lrs = 0;
+ if (vgic_cpu->used_lrs) {
+ vgic_fold_lr_state(vcpu);
+ vgic_cpu->used_lrs = 0;
+ }
+
+ vgic_prune_ap_list(vcpu);
}
/* Flush our emulation state into the GIC hardware before entering the guest. */
--
2.9.0
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