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Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vmx: allow ioeventfd for EPT violations

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On 08/30/2015 05:12 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Even when we skip data decoding, MMIO is slightly slower
> than port IO because it uses the page-tables, so the CPU
> must do a pagewalk on each access.
>
> This overhead is normally masked by using the TLB cache:
> but not so for KVM MMIO, where PTEs are marked as reserved
> and so are never cached.
>
> As ioeventfd memory is never read, make it possible to use
> RO pages on the host for ioeventfds, instead.
> The result is that TLBs are cached, which finally makes MMIO
> as fast as port IO.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index 9d1bfd3..ed44026 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -5745,6 +5745,11 @@ static int handle_ept_violation(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  		vmcs_set_bits(GUEST_INTERRUPTIBILITY_INFO, GUEST_INTR_STATE_NMI);
>  
>  	gpa = vmcs_read64(GUEST_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS);
> +	if (!kvm_io_bus_write(vcpu, KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS, gpa, 0, NULL)) {
> +		skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
> +		return 1;
> +	}
> +
>  	trace_kvm_page_fault(gpa, exit_qualification);
>  
>  	/* It is a write fault? */

Just notice that vcpu_mmio_write() tries lapic first. Should we do the
same here? Otherwise we may slow down apic access consider we may have
hundreds of eventfds.
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[PATCH RFC 0/3] kvm add ioeventfd pf capability "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-08-30 11:20 +0200
  [PATCH RFC 1/3] vmx: allow ioeventfd for EPT violations "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-08-30 11:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vmx: allow ioeventfd for EPT violations Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2015-08-31 05:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vmx: allow ioeventfd for EPT violations "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-08-31 09:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vmx: allow ioeventfd for EPT violations Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2015-08-31 10:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vmx: allow ioeventfd for EPT violations "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-08-31 13:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vmx: allow ioeventfd for EPT violations Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2015-08-31 15:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vmx: allow ioeventfd for EPT violations "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-08-31 17:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vmx: allow ioeventfd for EPT violations Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2015-09-01 05:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vmx: allow ioeventfd for EPT violations "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-09-01 06:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vmx: allow ioeventfd for EPT violations Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2015-09-01 06:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] vmx: allow ioeventfd for EPT violations "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-09-01 09:00 +0200
  [PATCH RFC 2/3] svm: allow ioeventfd for NPT page faults "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-08-30 11:20 +0200
  [PATCH RFC 3/3] kvm: add KVM_CAP_IOEVENTFD_PF capability "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-08-30 11:20 +0200

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