Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] LoongArch: KVM: Remove SW timer switch when vcpu is halt polling

[Huacai Chen]

Hi, Bibo,

I suggest submitting this series to the internal repo, too. Because we
don't have enough resources to test the stability for the upstream
version, while this is a fundamental change. On the other hand, the
patch "LoongArch:LSVZ: set timer offset at first time once" can be
submitted first because it is already in the internal repo.

Huacai

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 10:33 AM Bibo Mao <maobibo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patches removes SW timer switch during vcpu block stage. VM uses HW
> timer rather than SW PV timer on LoongArch system, it can check pending
> HW timer interrupt status directly, rather than switch to SW timer and
> check injected SW timer interrupt.
>
> When SW timer is not used in vcpu halt-polling mode, the relative
> SW timer handling before entering guest can be removed also. Timer
> emulation is simpler than before, SW timer emuation is only used in vcpu
> thread context switch.
> ---
> Changes in v4:
>   If vcpu is scheduled out since there is no pending event, and timer is
> fired during sched-out period. SW hrtimer is used to wake up vcpu thread
> in time, rather than inject pending timer irq.
>
> Changes in v3:
>   Add kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable checking before kvm_vcpu_halt.
>
> Changes in v2:
>   Add halt polling support for idle instruction emulation, using api
> kvm_vcpu_halt rather than kvm_vcpu_block in function kvm_emu_idle.
>
> ---
> Bibo Mao (3):
>   LoongArch: KVM: Remove SW timer switch when vcpu is halt polling
>   LoongArch: KVM: Allow to access HW timer CSR registers always
>   LoongArch: KVM: Remove kvm_acquire_timer before entering guest
>
>  arch/loongarch/include/asm/kvm_vcpu.h |  1 -
>  arch/loongarch/kvm/exit.c             | 13 +-----
>  arch/loongarch/kvm/main.c             |  1 -
>  arch/loongarch/kvm/timer.c            | 62 ++++++++++-----------------
>  arch/loongarch/kvm/vcpu.c             | 38 ++++------------
>  5 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: c42d9eeef8e5ba9292eda36fd8e3c11f35ee065c
> --
> 2.39.3
>