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[12/14] KVM: Don't redo ktime_get() when calculating halt-polling stop/deadline

Message ID 20210925005528.1145584-13-seanjc@google.com (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable
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Series KVM: Halt-polling fixes, cleanups and a new stat | expand

Commit Message

Sean Christopherson Sept. 25, 2021, 12:55 a.m. UTC
Calculate the halt-polling "stop" time using "cur" instead of redoing
ktime_get().  In the happy case where hardware correctly predicts
do_halt_poll, "cur" is only a few cycles old.  And if the branch is
mispredicted, arguably that extra latency should count toward the
halt-polling time.

In all likelihood, the numbers involved are in the noise and either
approach is perfectly ok.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

David Matlack Sept. 28, 2021, 10:08 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 05:55:26PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Calculate the halt-polling "stop" time using "cur" instead of redoing
> ktime_get().  In the happy case where hardware correctly predicts
> do_halt_poll, "cur" is only a few cycles old.  And if the branch is
> mispredicted, arguably that extra latency should count toward the
> halt-polling time.
> 
> In all likelihood, the numbers involved are in the noise and either
> approach is perfectly ok.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>

> ---
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 2980d2b88559..80f78daa6b8d 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -3267,7 +3267,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_halt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  
>  	start = cur = poll_end = ktime_get();
>  	if (do_halt_poll) {
> -		ktime_t stop = ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), vcpu->halt_poll_ns);
> +		ktime_t stop = ktime_add_ns(cur, vcpu->halt_poll_ns);
>  
>  		do {
>  			/*
> -- 
> 2.33.0.685.g46640cef36-goog
>
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diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 2980d2b88559..80f78daa6b8d 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -3267,7 +3267,7 @@  void kvm_vcpu_halt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 	start = cur = poll_end = ktime_get();
 	if (do_halt_poll) {
-		ktime_t stop = ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), vcpu->halt_poll_ns);
+		ktime_t stop = ktime_add_ns(cur, vcpu->halt_poll_ns);
 
 		do {
 			/*