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Commit b3646477 authored by Jason Baron's avatar Jason Baron Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86: use static calls to reduce kvm_x86_ops overhead



Convert kvm_x86_ops to use static calls. Note that all kvm_x86_ops are
covered here except for 'pmu_ops and 'nested ops'.

Here are some numbers running cpuid in a loop of 1 million calls averaged
over 5 runs, measured in the vm (lower is better).

Intel Xeon 3000MHz:

           |default    |mitigations=off
-------------------------------------
vanilla    |.671s      |.486s
static call|.573s(-15%)|.458s(-6%)

AMD EPYC 2500MHz:

           |default    |mitigations=off
-------------------------------------
vanilla    |.710s      |.609s
static call|.664s(-6%) |.609s(0%)

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Message-Id: <e057bf1b8a7ad15652df6eeba3f907ae758d3399.1610680941.git.jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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