Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:26:59 -0800 | From | tip-bot for Paolo Bonzini <> | Subject | [tip:x86/pti] KVM/VMX: Optimize vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() by marking the RDMSR path as unlikely() |
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Commit-ID: 946fbbc13dce68902f64515b610eeb2a6c3d7a64 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/946fbbc13dce68902f64515b610eeb2a6c3d7a64 Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> AuthorDate: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:43:18 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> CommitDate: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:24:36 +0100
KVM/VMX: Optimize vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() by marking the RDMSR path as unlikely()
vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() are large functions, and giving branch hints to the compiler can actually make a substantial cycle difference by keeping the fast path contiguous in memory.
With this optimization, the retpoline-guest/retpoline-host case is about 50 cycles faster.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222154318.20361-3-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> --- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c index 1598beeda11c..24c9521ebc24 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c @@ -5465,7 +5465,7 @@ static void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) * If the L02 MSR bitmap does not intercept the MSR, then we need to * save it. */ - if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL)) + if (unlikely(!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))) svm->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL); if (svm->spec_ctrl) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index 0927be315965..7f8401d05939 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -9588,7 +9588,7 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) * If the L02 MSR bitmap does not intercept the MSR, then we need to * save it. */ - if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL)) + if (unlikely(!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))) vmx->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL); if (vmx->spec_ctrl)
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