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Re: [PATCH 0/6] KVM TSS cleanups and speedups

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On 20/02/2017 17:56, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> The first four patches here are intended to be straightforward
> cleanups and to make a better base for Thomas' GDT series.  They may
> be a slight speedup, too, because they remove an STR instruction
> from the VMX entry path.
> 
> The last two patches are a reasonably large speedup but need careful
> review.

I spotted (I think) a bug in patch 6, but apart from that it looks nice.

Paolo

> FWIW, I can see lots of additional easy-ish speedups here.  For example:
> 
>  - The GDT reload on VM exit isn't really needed at all.  Instead let's
>    just change the kernel limit to 0xFFFF.  Doing that naively would
>    waste memory, but doing it carefully on top of Thomas' series would
>    be straightforward and almost free.
> 
>  - RDMSR from MSR_GS_BASE is totally pointless.
> 
>  - Once I or someone finishes the FSGSBASE series, we get a big speedup
>    there.
> 
>  - The LDT reload code should be split up and optimized better, I think.
> 
> Andy Lutomirski (6):
>   x86/asm: Define the kernel TSS limit in a macro
>   x86/kvm/vmx: Don't fetch the TSS base from the GDT
>   x86/kvm/vmx: Get rid of segment_base() on 64-bit kernels
>   x86/kvm/vmx: Simplify segment_base()
>   x86/asm/64: Drop __cacheline_aligned from struct x86_hw_tss
>   x86/kvm/vmx: Defer TR reload after VM exit
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h      | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 12 +++++++-
>  arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c         |  5 ++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/process.c        | 10 +++++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c               | 63 +++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  5 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> 

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[PATCH 0/6] KVM TSS cleanups and speedups Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-02-20 18:00 +0100
  [PATCH 2/6] x86/kvm/vmx: Don't fetch the TSS base from the GDT Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-02-20 18:00 +0100
  [PATCH 5/6] x86/asm/64: Drop __cacheline_aligned from struct x86_hw_tss Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-02-20 18:00 +0100
  [PATCH 1/6] x86/asm: Define the kernel TSS limit in a macro Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-02-20 18:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/6] KVM TSS cleanups and speedups Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-02-20 19:00 +0100

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