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authorSasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>2011-07-27 16:00:48 +0300
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2011-09-25 19:17:59 +0300
commit743eeb0b01d2fbf4154bf87bff1ebb6fb18aeb7a (patch)
tree5392464930f7e77131d65f32ba96ce4665307629 /arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
parent0d460ffc0956d2dbe12ca9f5f6aa0f8701ea9d73 (diff)
downloadlinux-743eeb0b01d2fbf4154bf87bff1ebb6fb18aeb7a.tar.bz2
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.c6
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;
}