x86/apic: Implement EIO micro-optimization
authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Wed, 16 May 2012 16:03:58 +0000 (19:03 +0300)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 18 May 2012 07:46:09 +0000 (09:46 +0200)
We know both register and value for eoi beforehand,
so there's no need to check it and no need to do math
to calculate the msr. Saves instructions/branches
on each EOI when using x2apic.

I looked at the objdump output to verify that the
generated code looks right and actually is shorter.

The real improvemements will be on the KVM guest side
though, those come in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: gleb@redhat.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e019d1a125316f10d3e3a4b2f6bda41473f4fb72.1337184153.git.mst@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h
arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_cluster.c
arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_phys.c
arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c

index bf8d065..eaff479 100644 (file)
@@ -138,6 +138,11 @@ static inline void native_apic_msr_write(u32 reg, u32 v)
        wrmsr(APIC_BASE_MSR + (reg >> 4), v, 0);
 }
 
+static inline void native_apic_msr_eoi_write(u32 reg, u32 v)
+{
+       wrmsr(APIC_BASE_MSR + (APIC_EOI >> 4), APIC_EOI_ACK, 0);
+}
+
 static inline u32 native_apic_msr_read(u32 reg)
 {
        u64 msr;
index a5baa78..ff35cff 100644 (file)
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static struct apic apic_x2apic_cluster = {
 
        .read                           = native_apic_msr_read,
        .write                          = native_apic_msr_write,
-       .eoi_write                      = native_apic_msr_write,
+       .eoi_write                      = native_apic_msr_eoi_write,
        .icr_read                       = native_x2apic_icr_read,
        .icr_write                      = native_x2apic_icr_write,
        .wait_icr_idle                  = native_x2apic_wait_icr_idle,
index 8340356..c17e982 100644 (file)
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static struct apic apic_x2apic_phys = {
 
        .read                           = native_apic_msr_read,
        .write                          = native_apic_msr_write,
-       .eoi_write                      = native_apic_msr_write,
+       .eoi_write                      = native_apic_msr_eoi_write,
        .icr_read                       = native_x2apic_icr_read,
        .icr_write                      = native_x2apic_icr_write,
        .wait_icr_idle                  = native_x2apic_wait_icr_idle,
index 5b0e3d0..c6d03f7 100644 (file)
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static struct apic __refdata apic_x2apic_uv_x = {
 
        .read                           = native_apic_msr_read,
        .write                          = native_apic_msr_write,
-       .eoi_write                      = native_apic_msr_write,
+       .eoi_write                      = native_apic_msr_eoi_write,
        .icr_read                       = native_x2apic_icr_read,
        .icr_write                      = native_x2apic_icr_write,
        .wait_icr_idle                  = native_x2apic_wait_icr_idle,