Looking up devices on the port I/O bus is time consuming during the
boot at there is an O(lg n) tree lookup and the overhead from taking a
lock on the bus contents.
Avoid this by adding a fast path uses the hardcoded port address and
size and directs PCI config requests directly to the device.
Command line:
target/release/cloud-hypervisor --kernel ~/src/linux/vmlinux --cmdline "root=/dev/vda1 console=ttyS0" --serial tty --console off --disk path=~/workloads/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64-custom-20210609-0.raw --api-socket /tmp/api
PIO exit: 17913
PCI fast path: 17871
Percentage on fast path: 99.8%
perf before:
marvin:~/src/cloud-hypervisor (main *)$ perf report -g | grep resolve
6.20% 6.20% vcpu0 cloud-hypervisor [.] vm_device:🚌:Bus::resolve
perf after:
marvin:~/src/cloud-hypervisor (2021-09-17-ioapic-fast-path *)$ perf report -g | grep resolve
0.08% 0.08% vcpu0 cloud-hypervisor [.] vm_device:🚌:Bus::resolve
The compromise required to implement this fast path is bringing the
creation of the PciConfigIo device into the DeviceManager::new() so that
it can be used in the VmmOps struct which is created before
DeviceManager::create_devices() is called.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
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