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The use of any sort of waitqueue (simple or regular) for
wait/waking vcpus has always been an overkill and semantically
wrong. Because this is per-vcpu (which is blocked) there is
only ever a single waiting vcpu, thus no need for any sort of
queue.
As such, make use of the rcuwait primitive, with the following
considerations:
- rcuwait already provides the proper barriers that serialize
concurrent waiter and waker.
- Task wakeup is done in rcu read critical region, with a
stable task pointer.
- Because there is no concurrency among waiters, we need
not worry about rcuwait_wait_event() calls corrupting
the wait->task. As a consequence, this saves the locking
done in swait when modifying the queue. This also applies
to per-vcore wait for powerpc kvm-hv.
The x86 tscdeadline_latency test mentioned in 8577370fb0cb
("KVM: Use simple waitqueue for vcpu->wq") shows that, on avg,
latency is reduced by around 15-20% with this change.
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Message-Id: <20200424054837.5138-6-dave@stgolabs.net>
[Avoid extra logic changes. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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