From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: "Liu, Jing2" <jing2.liu@linux.intel.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jing2.liu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/7] kvm: x86: Introduce XFD MSRs as passthrough to guest
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 10:58:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <895e41d7-b64c-e398-c4e2-6309c747068d@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c63438b-2a42-0b81-f002-b937095570e1@linux.intel.com>
On 6/27/21 7:00 PM, Liu, Jing2 wrote:
> On 6/24/2021 1:50 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 5/24/21 2:43 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 07, 2021, Jing Liu wrote:
>>>> Passthrough both MSRs to let guest access and write without vmexit.
>>> Why? Except for read-only MSRs, e.g. MSR_CORE_C1_RES,
>>> passthrough MSRs are costly to support because KVM must context
>>> switch the MSR (which, by the by, is completely missing from the
>>> patch).
>>>
>>> In other words, if these MSRs are full RW passthrough, guests
>>> with XFD enabled will need to load the guest value on entry, save
>>> the guest value on exit, and load the host value on exit. That's
>>> in the neighborhood of a 40% increase in latency for a single
>>> VM-Enter/VM-Exit roundtrip (~1500 cycles =>
>>>> 2000 cycles).
>> I'm not taking a position as to whether these _should_ be passthrough or
>> not. But, if they are, I don't think you strictly need to do the
>> RDMSR/WRMSR at VM-Exit time.
> Hi Dave,
>
> Thanks for reviewing the patches.
>
> When vmexit, clearing XFD (because KVM thinks guest has requested AMX) can
> be deferred to the time when host does XSAVES, but this means need a new
> flag in common "fpu" structure or a common macro per thread which works
> only dedicated for KVM case, and check the flag in 1) switch_fpu_prepare()
> 2) kernel_fpu_begin() . This is the concern to me.
Why is this a concern? You're worried about finding a single bit worth
of space somewhere?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-29 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-07 15:42 [PATCH RFC 0/7] Introduce support for guest AMX feature Jing Liu
2021-02-07 15:42 ` [PATCH RFC 1/7] kvm: x86: Expose XFD CPUID to guest Jing Liu
2021-05-24 21:34 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-06-07 3:27 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-02-07 15:42 ` [PATCH RFC 2/7] kvm: x86: Introduce XFD MSRs as passthrough " Jing Liu
2021-05-24 21:43 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-05-24 21:57 ` Jim Mattson
2021-06-02 3:12 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-06-23 17:50 ` Dave Hansen
2021-06-28 2:00 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-06-29 17:58 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2021-07-06 7:33 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-02-07 15:42 ` [PATCH RFC 3/7] kvm: x86: XSAVE state and XFD MSRs context switch Jing Liu
2021-02-07 11:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-02-08 3:35 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-02-08 10:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-08 17:31 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-02-08 17:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-08 18:04 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-02-08 18:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-08 18:55 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2021-02-22 8:51 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-02-22 8:36 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-02-07 15:42 ` [PATCH RFC 4/7] kvm: x86: Add new ioctls for XSAVE extension Jing Liu
2021-05-24 21:50 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-05-26 6:09 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-05-26 14:43 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-06-01 10:24 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-06-07 5:23 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-05-24 22:06 ` Jim Mattson
2021-05-26 6:11 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-02-07 15:42 ` [PATCH RFC 5/7] kvm: x86: Revise CPUID.D.1.EBX for alignment rule Jing Liu
2021-05-24 21:28 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-06-03 4:45 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-02-07 15:42 ` [PATCH RFC 6/7] kvm: x86: Add AMX_TILE, AMX_INT8 and AMX_BF16 support Jing Liu
2021-02-07 15:42 ` [PATCH RFC 7/7] kvm: x86: AMX XCR0 support for guest Jing Liu
2021-05-24 21:53 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-05-26 7:54 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-05-26 14:54 ` Sean Christopherson
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