KVM: SVM: obey guest PAT
authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Thu, 26 Oct 2017 07:13:27 +0000 (09:13 +0200)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:20:06 +0000 (13:20 +0100)
commit15038e14724799b8c205beb5f20f9e54896013c3
tree906c5f721ef96e093d52884af1d6a857d8811179
parentfc3790fa0768a789d9163608b4414e2d595be5fe
KVM: SVM: obey guest PAT

For many years some users of assigned devices have reported worse
performance on AMD processors with NPT than on AMD without NPT,
Intel or bare metal.

The reason turned out to be that SVM is discarding the guest PAT
setting and uses the default (PA0=PA4=WB, PA1=PA5=WT, PA2=PA6=UC-,
PA3=UC).  The guest might be using a different setting, and
especially might want write combining but isn't getting it
(instead getting slow UC or UC- accesses).

Thanks a lot to geoff@hostfission.com for noticing the relation
to the g_pat setting.  The patch has been tested also by a bunch
of people on VFIO users forums.

Fixes: 709ddebf81cb40e3c36c6109a7892e8b93a09464
Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196409
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nick Sarnie <commendsarnex@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c