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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2018-02-22 16:43:18 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-02-23 08:24:36 +0100
commit946fbbc13dce68902f64515b610eeb2a6c3d7a64 (patch)
treeed811ec9d486d9a589fd3d4ef3bd04620a3ab75f /arch/x86
parentKVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/svm.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c2
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)