Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: optimize loading of GDT at context switch

2019-07-25 Thread Jan Beulich
On 22.07.2019 15:22, Juergen Gross wrote: > @@ -756,6 +758,7 @@ void load_system_tables(void) > offsetof(struct tss_struct, __cacheline_filler) - 1, > SYS_DESC_tss_busy); > > +per_cpu(full_gdt_loaded, cpu) = false; > lgdt(&gdtr); > lidt(&idtr); >

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: optimize loading of GDT at context switch

2019-07-22 Thread Juergen Gross
Instead of dynamically decide whether the previous vcpu was using full or default GDT just add a percpu variable for that purpose. This at once removes the need for testing vcpu_ids to differ twice. This change improves performance by 0.5% - 1% on my test machine when doing parallel compilation.