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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 7/7] x86/kvm: use Enlightened VMCS when running on Hyper-V
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Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> writes:

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2018, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> writes:
>> > On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> >> Static key is being used to avoid performance penalty for non-Hyper-V
>> >> deployments. Tests show we add around 3 (three) CPU cycles on each
>> >> VMEXIT (1077.5 cycles before, 1080.7 cycles after for the same CPUID
>> >> loop on bare metal). We can probably avoid one test/jmp in vmx_vcpu_run()
>> >> but I don't see a clean way to use static key in assembly.
>> >
>> > STATIC_JUMP_IF_TRUE, STATIC_JUMP_IF_FALSE are your friends.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for the tip,
>>
>> with a single kernel user of these APIs it was easy to miss :-)
>>
>> Unfortunately, these APIs are only present if HAVE_JUMP_LABEL and
>> (afaiu) we still care about KVM on !HAVE_JUMP_LABEL builds. It would be
>> nice if we can make them behave the same way static_branch_likely() and
>> friends do: compile into something else when !HAVE_JUMP_LABEL so we can
>> avoid nasty #ifdefs in C code.
>
> What's the reason for !jump label builds of a recent kernel? Old compilers?
>

To be honest I don't see any, we can start depending on HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
for CONFIG_KVM I guess.

--
Vitaly

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