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authorIgor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>2025-08-14 18:05:59 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2025-08-29 12:48:14 +0200
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kvm: i386: irqchip: take BQL only if there is an interrupt
when kernel-irqchip=split is used, QEMU still hits BQL contention issue when reading ACPI PM/HPET timers (despite of timer[s] access being lock-less). So Windows with more than 255 cpus is still not able to boot (since it requires iommu -> split irqchip). Problematic path is in kvm_arch_pre_run() where BQL is taken unconditionally when split irqchip is in use. There are a few parts that BQL protects there: 1. interrupt check and injecting however we do not take BQL when checking for pending interrupt (even within the same function), so the patch takes the same approach for cpu->interrupt_request checks and takes BQL only if there is a job to do. 2. request_interrupt_window access CPUState::kvm_run::request_interrupt_window doesn't need BQL as it's accessed by its own vCPU thread. 3. cr8/cpu_get_apic_tpr access the same (as #2) applies to CPUState::kvm_run::cr8, and APIC registers are also cached/synced (get/put) within the vCPU thread it belongs to. Taking BQL only when is necessary, eleminates BQL bottleneck on IO/MMIO only exit path, improoving latency by 80% on HPET micro benchmark. This lets Windows to boot succesfully (in case hv-time isn't used) when more than 255 vCPUs are in use. Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250814160600.2327672-8-imammedo@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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