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| author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2018-02-22 16:43:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-02-23 08:24:36 +0100 |
| commit | 946fbbc13dce68902f64515b610eeb2a6c3d7a64 (patch) | |
| tree | ed811ec9d486d9a589fd3d4ef3bd04620a3ab75f /arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | |
| parent | ecb586bd29c99fb4de599dec388658e74388daad (diff) | |
KVM/VMX: Optimize vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() by marking the RDMSR path as unlikely()
vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() are large functions, and giving
branch hints to the compiler can actually make a substantial cycle
difference by keeping the fast path contiguous in memory.
With this optimization, the retpoline-guest/retpoline-host case is
about 50 cycles faster.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222154318.20361-3-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/svm.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c index 1598beeda11c..24c9521ebc24 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c @@ -5465,7 +5465,7 @@ static void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) * If the L02 MSR bitmap does not intercept the MSR, then we need to * save it. */ - if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL)) + if (unlikely(!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))) svm->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL); if (svm->spec_ctrl) |