[PATCH v2 20/37] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Reduce mftb per guest entry/exit
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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-02-25 13:55:45
Subsystem:
kernel virtual machine for powerpc (kvm/powerpc), linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers:
Madhavan Srinivasan, Linus Torvalds
Revision v2 of 6 in this series.
Revisions (6)
mftb is serialising (dispatch next-to-complete) so it is heavy weight for a mfspr. Avoid reading it multiple times in the entry or exit paths. A small number of cycles delay to timers is tolerable. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> --- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 735ec40ece86..d98958b78830 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c@@ -3689,7 +3689,7 @@ static int kvmhv_p9_guest_entry(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 time_limit, if (!(vcpu->arch.ctrl & 1)) mtspr(SPRN_CTRLT, mfspr(SPRN_CTRLF) & ~1); - mtspr(SPRN_DEC, vcpu->arch.dec_expires - mftb()); + mtspr(SPRN_DEC, vcpu->arch.dec_expires - tb); if (kvmhv_on_pseries()) { /*
@@ -3822,7 +3822,7 @@ static int kvmhv_p9_guest_entry(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 time_limit, vc->entry_exit_map = 0x101; vc->in_guest = 0; - mtspr(SPRN_DEC, local_paca->kvm_hstate.dec_expires - mftb()); + mtspr(SPRN_DEC, local_paca->kvm_hstate.dec_expires - tb); mtspr(SPRN_SPRG_VDSO_WRITE, local_paca->sprg_vdso); kvmhv_load_host_pmu();
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