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| author | Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> | 2011-07-27 17:00:48 +0400 |
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| committer | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2011-09-25 20:17:59 +0400 |
| commit | 743eeb0b01d2fbf4154bf87bff1ebb6fb18aeb7a (patch) | |
| tree | 5392464930f7e77131d65f32ba96ce4665307629 /arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c | |
| parent | 0d460ffc0956d2dbe12ca9f5f6aa0f8701ea9d73 (diff) | |
| download | linux-743eeb0b01d2fbf4154bf87bff1ebb6fb18aeb7a.tar.xz | |
KVM: Intelligent device lookup on I/O bus
Currently the method of dealing with an IO operation on a bus (PIO/MMIO)
is to call the read or write callback for each device registered
on the bus until we find a device which handles it.
Since the number of devices on a bus can be significant due to ioeventfds
and coalesced MMIO zones, this leads to a lot of overhead on each IO
operation.
Instead of registering devices, we now register ranges which points to
a device. Lookup is done using an efficient bsearch instead of a linear
search.
Performance test was conducted by comparing exit count per second with
200 ioeventfds created on one byte and the guest is trying to access a
different byte continuously (triggering usermode exits).
Before the patch the guest has achieved 259k exits per second, after the
patch the guest does 274k exits per second.
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c index efad72385058..76e3f1cd0369 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c @@ -713,14 +713,16 @@ struct kvm_pit *kvm_create_pit(struct kvm *kvm, u32 flags) kvm_register_irq_mask_notifier(kvm, 0, &pit->mask_notifier); kvm_iodevice_init(&pit->dev, &pit_dev_ops); - ret = kvm_io_bus_register_dev(kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS, &pit->dev); + ret = kvm_io_bus_register_dev(kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS, KVM_PIT_BASE_ADDRESS, + KVM_PIT_MEM_LENGTH, &pit->dev); if (ret < 0) goto fail; if (flags & KVM_PIT_SPEAKER_DUMMY) { kvm_iodevice_init(&pit->speaker_dev, &speaker_dev_ops); ret = kvm_io_bus_register_dev(kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS, - &pit->speaker_dev); + KVM_SPEAKER_BASE_ADDRESS, 4, + &pit->speaker_dev); if (ret < 0) goto fail_unregister; } |