| author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | |
| Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:43:18 +0000 (16:43 +0100) | ||
| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | |
| Fri, 23 Feb 2018 07:24:36 +0000 (08:24 +0100) | ||
| commit | 946fbbc13dce68902f64515b610eeb2a6c3d7a64 | |
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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>
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>
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