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xen/mmu: Use Xen specific TLB flush instead of the generic one.
authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:38:31 +0000 (12:38 -0400)
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Tue, 4 Dec 2012 17:32:46 +0000 (12:32 -0500)
commit72482312eaa957108e8d68ec3683a9011dc83353
tree360ac75b2b7b479bfd0a1471c2a7b53700433cc0
parent2dc2550f7ad98d73f3c53049512331a42151adfa
xen/mmu: Use Xen specific TLB flush instead of the generic one.

As Mukesh explained it, the MMUEXT_TLB_FLUSH_ALL allows the
hypervisor to do a TLB flush on all active vCPUs. If instead
we were using the generic one (which ends up being xen_flush_tlb)
we end up making the MMUEXT_TLB_FLUSH_LOCAL hypercall. But
before we make that hypercall the kernel will IPI all of the
vCPUs (even those that were asleep from the hypervisor
perspective). The end result is that we needlessly wake them
up and do a TLB flush when we can just let the hypervisor
do it correctly.

This patch gives around 50% speed improvement when migrating
idle guest's from one host to another.

Oracle-bug: 14630170

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Jingjie Jiang <jingjie.jiang@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
(cherry picked from commit 95a7d76897c1e7243d4137037c66d15cbf2cce76)
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
include/trace/events/xen.h