KVM: APIC: avoid instruction emulation for EOI writes
Instruction emulation for EOI writes can be skipped, since sane
guest simply uses MOV instead of string operations. This is a nice
improvement when guest doesn't support x2apic or hyper-V EOI
support.
a single VM bandwidth is observed with ~8% bandwidth improvement
(7.4Gbps->8Gbps), by saving ~5% cycles from EOI emulation.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
<Based on earlier work from>:
Signed-off-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h
index 52c9e6b..8287243 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
void kvm_lapic_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
u64 kvm_lapic_get_cr8(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_lapic_set_tpr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr8);
+void kvm_lapic_set_eoi(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_lapic_set_base(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 value);
u64 kvm_lapic_get_base(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_apic_set_version(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);