KVM: PIC: enhance IPI avoidance

The PIC code makes little effort to avoid kvm_vcpu_kick(), resulting in
unnecessary guest exits in some conditions.

For example, if the timer interrupt is routed through the IOAPIC, IRR
for IRQ 0 will get set but not cleared, since the APIC is handling the
acks.

This means that everytime an interrupt < 16 is triggered, the priority
logic will find IRQ0 pending and send an IPI to vcpu0 (in case IRQ0 is
not masked, which is Linux's case).

Introduce a new variable isr_ack to represent the IRQ's for which the
guest has been signalled / cleared the ISR. Use it to avoid more than
one IPI per trigger-ack cycle, in addition to the avoidance when ISR is
set in get_priority().

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
index 71e3eeeccae8..17e41e165f1a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@
 static void pic_clear_isr(struct kvm_kpic_state *s, int irq)
 {
         s->isr &= ~(1 << irq);
+        s->isr_ack |= (1 << irq);
+}
+
+void kvm_pic_clear_isr_ack(struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+        struct kvm_pic *s = pic_irqchip(kvm);
+        s->pics[0].isr_ack = 0xff;
+        s->pics[1].isr_ack = 0xff;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -213,6 +221,7 @@ void kvm_pic_reset(struct kvm_kpic_state *s)
         s->irr = 0;
         s->imr = 0;
         s->isr = 0;
+        s->isr_ack = 0xff;
         s->priority_add = 0;
         s->irq_base = 0;
         s->read_reg_select = 0;
@@ -444,10 +453,14 @@ static void pic_irq_request(void *opaque, int level)
 {
         struct kvm *kvm = opaque;
         struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = kvm->vcpus[0];
+        struct kvm_pic *s = pic_irqchip(kvm);
+        int irq = pic_get_irq(&s->pics[0]);
 
-        pic_irqchip(kvm)->output = level;
-        if (vcpu)
+        s->output = level;
+        if (vcpu && level && (s->pics[0].isr_ack & (1 << irq))) {
+                s->pics[0].isr_ack &= ~(1 << irq);
                 kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
+        }
 }
 
 struct kvm_pic *kvm_create_pic(struct kvm *kvm)