From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
ak@linux.intel.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com, kan.liang@intel.com,
x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND v13 00/10] KVM: x86/pmu: Guest Last Branch Recording Enabling
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:19:06 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3deac361-05fa-60a5-0d88-4f6b968f10bf@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210108013704.134985-1-like.xu@linux.intel.com>
在 2021/1/8 上午9:36, Like Xu 写道:
> Because saving/restoring tens of LBR MSRs (e.g. 32 LBR stack entries) in
> VMX transition brings too excessive overhead to frequent vmx transition
> itself, the guest LBR event would help save/restore the LBR stack msrs
> during the context switching with the help of native LBR event callstack
> mechanism, including LBR_SELECT msr.
>
Sounds the feature is much helpful for VMM guest performance tunning.
Good job!
Thanks
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-15 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-08 1:36 [RESEND v13 00/10] KVM: x86/pmu: Guest Last Branch Recording Enabling Like Xu
2021-01-08 1:36 ` [RESEND v13 01/10] KVM: x86: Move common set/get handler of MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR to VMX Like Xu
2021-01-26 9:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-08 1:36 ` [RESEND v13 02/10] KVM: x86/vmx: Make vmx_set_intercept_for_msr() non-static Like Xu
2021-01-08 1:36 ` [RESEND v13 03/10] KVM: x86/pmu: Use IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES to adjust features visibility Like Xu
2021-01-26 9:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-27 6:04 ` Like Xu
2021-01-27 9:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-01 5:28 ` Like Xu
2021-01-08 1:36 ` [RESEND v13 04/10] KVM: vmx/pmu: Clear PMU_CAP_LBR_FMT when guest LBR is disabled Like Xu
2021-01-08 1:36 ` [RESEND v13 05/10] KVM: vmx/pmu: Create a guest LBR event when vcpu sets DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR Like Xu
2021-01-08 1:37 ` [RESEND v13 06/10] KVM: vmx/pmu: Pass-through LBR msrs when the guest LBR event is ACTIVE Like Xu
2021-01-08 1:37 ` [RESEND v13 07/10] KVM: vmx/pmu: Reduce the overhead of LBR pass-through or cancellation Like Xu
2021-01-26 9:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-08 1:37 ` [RESEND v13 08/10] KVM: vmx/pmu: Emulate legacy freezing LBRs on virtual PMI Like Xu
2021-01-08 1:37 ` [RESEND v13 09/10] KVM: vmx/pmu: Expose LBR_FMT in the MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES Like Xu
2021-01-26 9:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-27 5:45 ` Xu, Like
2021-01-27 9:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-08 1:37 ` [RESEND v13 10/10] KVM: vmx/pmu: Release guest LBR event via lazy release mechanism Like Xu
2021-01-26 9:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-15 8:19 ` Alex Shi [this message]
2021-01-15 8:51 ` [RESEND v13 00/10] KVM: x86/pmu: Guest Last Branch Recording Enabling Xu, Like
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