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| author | Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> | 2018-02-13 04:05:40 +0300 |
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| committer | Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> | 2018-03-06 20:40:44 +0300 |
| commit | a4429e53c9b3082b05e51224c3d58dbdd39306c5 (patch) | |
| tree | d0fbeff12679477198902c365cb23ad6b645747c /arch/x86/include/uapi | |
| parent | d4c67a7a54f12cb8d267284212f1072c95917e5a (diff) | |
| download | linux-a4429e53c9b3082b05e51224c3d58dbdd39306c5.tar.xz | |
KVM: Introduce paravirtualization hints and KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED
This patch introduces kvm_para_has_hint() to query for hints about
the configuration of the guests. The first hint KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED,
is set if the guest has dedicated physical CPUs for each vCPU (i.e.
pinning and no over-commitment). This allows optimizing spinlocks
and tells the guest to avoid PV TLB flush.
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/uapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h index 6cfa9c8cb7d6..68a41b6ba3da 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h @@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ */ #define KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE 0x40000000 -/* This CPUID returns a feature bitmap in eax. Before enabling a particular - * paravirtualization, the appropriate feature bit should be checked. +/* This CPUID returns two feature bitmaps in eax, edx. Before enabling + * a particular paravirtualization, the appropriate feature bit should + * be checked in eax. The performance hint feature bit should be checked + * in edx. */ #define KVM_CPUID_FEATURES 0x40000001 #define KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE 0 @@ -28,6 +30,8 @@ #define KVM_FEATURE_PV_TLB_FLUSH 9 #define KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_VMEXIT 10 +#define KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED 0 + /* The last 8 bits are used to indicate how to interpret the flags field * in pvclock structure. If no bits are set, all flags are ignored. */ |