Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] LoongArch: KVM: Remove SW timer switch when vcpu is halt polling | From | maobibo <> | Date | Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:47:00 +0800 |
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On 2023/11/13 下午10:36, Huacai Chen wrote: > Hi, Bibo, > > Does this series have some relationship with the commit > "LoongArch:LSVZ: set timer offset at first time once" in our internal > repo?
No, it is not relative with internal repo. This patch is only optimization for timer save and restore. The internal repo is to set timestamp offset for VM.
I will post another patch for timestamp offset setting.
Regards Bibo,
> > Huacai > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 5:07 PM Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn> wrote: >> >> This patches removes SW timer switch during vcpu block stage. VM uses HW >> timer rather than SW PV timer on LoongArch system, it can check pending >> HW timer interrupt status directly, rather than switch to SW timer and >> check injected SW timer interrupt. >> >> When SW timer is not used in vcpu halt-polling mode, the relative >> SW timer handling before entering guest can be removed also. Timer >> emulation is simpler than before, SW timer emuation is only used in vcpu >> thread context switch. >> >> --- >> >> Changes in v3: >> Add kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable checking before kvm_vcpu_halt. >> >> Changes in v2: >> Add halt polling support for idle instruction emulation, using api >> kvm_vcpu_halt rather than kvm_vcpu_block in function kvm_emu_idle. >> >> --- >> >> Bibo Mao (3): >> LoongArch: KVM: Remove SW timer switch when vcpu is halt polling >> LoongArch: KVM: Allow to access HW timer CSR registers always >> LoongArch: KVM: Remove kvm_acquire_timer before entering guest >> >> arch/loongarch/include/asm/kvm_vcpu.h | 1 - >> arch/loongarch/kvm/exit.c | 13 ++------ >> arch/loongarch/kvm/main.c | 1 - >> arch/loongarch/kvm/timer.c | 47 +++++++-------------------- >> arch/loongarch/kvm/vcpu.c | 38 +++++----------------- >> 5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-) >> >> >> base-commit: 305230142ae0637213bf6e04f6d9f10bbcb74af8 >> -- >> 2.39.3 >>
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