x86/x2apic: introduce a mixed physical/cluster mode

The current implementation of x2APIC requires to either use Cluster Logical or
Physical mode for all interrupts.  However the selection of Physical vs Logical
is not done at APIC setup, an APIC can be addressed both in Physical or Logical
destination modes concurrently.

Introduce a new x2APIC mode called Mixed, which uses Logical Cluster mode for
IPIs, and Physical mode for external interrupts, thus attempting to use the
best method for each interrupt type.

Using Physical mode for external interrupts allows more vectors to be used, and
interrupt balancing to be more accurate.

Using Logical Cluster mode for IPIs allows fewer accesses to the ICR register
when sending those, as multiple CPUs can be targeted with a single ICR register
write.

A simple test calling flush_tlb_all() 10000 times on a tight loop on AMD EPYC
9754 with 512 CPUs gives the following figures in nano seconds:

x mixed
+ phys
* cluster
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x  25 3.5131328e+08 3.5716441e+08 3.5410987e+08 3.5432659e+08     1566737.4
+  12  1.231082e+09  1.238824e+09 1.2370528e+09 1.2357981e+09     2853892.9
Difference at 95.0% confidence
	8.81472e+08 +/- 1.46849e+06
	248.774% +/- 0.96566%
	(Student's t, pooled s = 2.05985e+06)
*  11 3.5099276e+08 3.5561459e+08 3.5461234e+08 3.5415668e+08     1415071.9
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence

So Mixed has no difference when compared to Cluster mode, and Physical mode is
248% slower when compared to either Mixed or Cluster modes with a 95%
confidence.

Note that Xen uses Cluster mode by default, and hence is already using the
fastest way for IPI delivery at the cost of reducing the amount of vectors
available system-wide.

Make the newly introduced mode the default one.

Note the printing of the APIC addressing mode done in connect_bsp_APIC() has
been removed, as with the newly introduced mixed mode this would require more
fine grained printing, or else would be incorrect.  The addressing mode can
already be derived from the APIC driver in use, which is printed by different
helpers.

Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b184dde8b15fd71bdf1a5e57c5bf1bd326aac6b6..c341c9d0bf5d6dfe23d63170558e4d9f41ee6c8a 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 ### Changed
 
 ### Added
+ - On x86:
+   - Introduce a new x2APIC driver that uses Cluster Logical addressing mode
+     for IPIs and Physical addressing mode for external interrupts.
 
 ### Removed
 

diff --git a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.pandoc b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.pandoc
index 9a19a04157cb67d915f5b75f72c84ff5fabb7028..8e65f8bd18bfc1731bf2c8ceab983951ccc93dc0 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.pandoc
+++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.pandoc
@@ -2804,6 +2804,15 @@ the watchdog.
 
 Permit use of x2apic setup for SMP environments.
 
+### x2apic-mode (x86)
+> `= physical | cluster | mixed`
+
+> Default: `physical` if **FADT** mandates physical mode, otherwise set at
+>          build time by CONFIG_X2APIC_{PHYSICAL,LOGICAL,MIXED}.
+
+In the case that x2apic is in use, this option switches between modes to
+address APICs in the system as interrupt destinations.
+
 ### x2apic_phys (x86)
 > `= <boolean>`
 
@@ -2814,6 +2823,9 @@ In the case that x2apic is in use, this option switches between physical and
 clustered mode.  The default, given no hint from the **FADT**, is cluster
 mode.
 
+**WARNING: `x2apic_phys` is deprecated and superseded by `x2apic-mode`.
+The latter takes precedence if both are set.**
+
 ### xenheap_megabytes (arm32)
 > `= <size>`
 

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/Kconfig b/xen/arch/x86/Kconfig
index eac77573bd751d0997661cbe5eb1dfce48ed8177..1acdffc51c22c4faf351a37f1f7e8fa6897854b0 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -228,11 +228,18 @@ config XEN_ALIGN_2M
 
 endchoice
 
-config X2APIC_PHYSICAL
-       bool "x2APIC Physical Destination mode"
+choice
+       prompt "x2APIC Driver default"
+       default X2APIC_MIXED
        help
-         Use x2APIC Physical Destination mode by default when available.
+         Select APIC addressing when x2APIC is enabled.
+
+         The default mode is mixed which should provide the best aspects
+         of both physical and cluster modes.
 
+config X2APIC_PHYSICAL
+       bool "Physical Destination mode"
+       help
          When using this mode APICs are addressed using the Physical
          Destination mode, which allows using all dynamic vectors on each
          CPU independently.
@@ -242,9 +249,27 @@ config X2APIC_PHYSICAL
          destination inter processor interrupts (IPIs) slightly slower than
          Logical Destination mode.
 
-         The mode when this option is not selected is Logical Destination.
+config X2APIC_CLUSTER
+       bool "Cluster Destination mode"
+       help
+         When using this mode APICs are addressed using the Cluster Logical
+         Destination mode.
+
+         Cluster Destination has the benefit of sending IPIs faster since
+         multiple APICs can be targeted as destinations of a single IPI.
+         However the vector space is shared between all CPUs on the cluster,
+         and hence using this mode reduces the number of available vectors
+         when compared to Physical mode.
 
-         If unsure, say N.
+config X2APIC_MIXED
+       bool "Mixed Destination mode"
+       help
+         When using this mode APICs are addressed using the Cluster Logical
+         Destination mode for IPIs and Physical mode for external interrupts.
+
+         Should provide the best of both modes.
+
+endchoice
 
 config GUEST
        bool

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/apic.c b/xen/arch/x86/apic.c
index f1264ce7ed1e19164094287d9386bc029358803e..6acdd0ec1468f82bf8d9252914d8e4479e0536f2 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/apic.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/apic.c
@@ -229,11 +229,7 @@ void __init connect_bsp_APIC(void)
         outb(0x01, 0x23);
     }
 
-    printk("Enabling APIC mode:  %s.  Using %d I/O APICs\n",
-           !INT_DEST_MODE ? "Physical"
-                          : init_apic_ldr == init_apic_ldr_flat ? "Flat"
-                                                                : "Clustered",
-           nr_ioapics);
+    printk("Enabling APIC mode.  Using %d I/O APICs\n", nr_ioapics);
     enable_apic_mode();
 }
 

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/genapic/x2apic.c b/xen/arch/x86/genapic/x2apic.c
index 707deef98c27c234eca062e706dd570fa1f75a8a..b88c7a96fe3ed5cd5c0f250c17651445d1346aad 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/genapic/x2apic.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/genapic/x2apic.c
@@ -180,6 +180,36 @@ static const struct genapic __initconstrel apic_x2apic_cluster = {
     .send_IPI_self = send_IPI_self_x2apic
 };
 
+/*
+ * Mixed x2APIC mode: use physical for external (device) interrupts, and
+ * cluster for inter processor interrupts.  Such mode has the benefits of not
+ * sharing the vector space with all CPUs on the cluster, while still allowing
+ * IPIs to be more efficiently delivered by not having to perform an ICR write
+ * for each target CPU.
+ */
+static const struct genapic __initconstrel apic_x2apic_mixed = {
+    APIC_INIT("x2apic_mixed", NULL),
+
+    /*
+     * The following fields are exclusively used by external interrupts and
+     * hence are set to use Physical destination mode handlers.
+     */
+    .int_delivery_mode = dest_Fixed,
+    .int_dest_mode = 0 /* physical delivery */,
+    .vector_allocation_cpumask = vector_allocation_cpumask_phys,
+    .cpu_mask_to_apicid = cpu_mask_to_apicid_phys,
+
+    /*
+     * The following fields are exclusively used by IPIs and hence are set to
+     * use Cluster Logical destination mode handlers.  Note that init_apic_ldr
+     * is not used by IPIs, but the per-CPU fields it initializes are only used
+     * by the IPI hooks.
+     */
+    .init_apic_ldr = init_apic_ldr_x2apic_cluster,
+    .send_IPI_mask = send_IPI_mask_x2apic_cluster,
+    .send_IPI_self = send_IPI_self_x2apic,
+};
+
 static int cf_check update_clusterinfo(
     struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
 {
@@ -220,38 +250,56 @@ static struct notifier_block x2apic_cpu_nfb = {
 static int8_t __initdata x2apic_phys = -1;
 boolean_param("x2apic_phys", x2apic_phys);
 
+enum {
+   unset, physical, cluster, mixed
+} static __initdata x2apic_mode = unset;
+
+static int __init cf_check parse_x2apic_mode(const char *s)
+{
+    if ( !cmdline_strcmp(s, "physical") )
+        x2apic_mode = physical;
+    else if ( !cmdline_strcmp(s, "cluster") )
+        x2apic_mode = cluster;
+    else if ( !cmdline_strcmp(s, "mixed") )
+        x2apic_mode = mixed;
+    else
+        return -EINVAL;
+
+    return 0;
+}
+custom_param("x2apic-mode", parse_x2apic_mode);
+
 const struct genapic *__init apic_x2apic_probe(void)
 {
-    if ( x2apic_phys < 0 )
+    /* Honour the legacy cmdline setting if it's the only one provided. */
+    if ( x2apic_mode == unset && x2apic_phys >= 0 )
+        x2apic_mode = x2apic_phys ? physical : cluster;
+
+    if ( x2apic_mode == unset )
     {
-        /*
-         * Force physical mode if there's no (full) interrupt remapping support:
-         * The ID in clustered mode requires a 32 bit destination field due to
-         * the usage of the high 16 bits to hold the cluster ID.
-         */
-        x2apic_phys = iommu_intremap != iommu_intremap_full ||
-                      (acpi_gbl_FADT.flags & ACPI_FADT_APIC_PHYSICAL) ||
-                      IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X2APIC_PHYSICAL);
-    }
-    else if ( !x2apic_phys )
-        switch ( iommu_intremap )
+        if ( acpi_gbl_FADT.flags & ACPI_FADT_APIC_PHYSICAL )
         {
-        case iommu_intremap_off:
-        case iommu_intremap_restricted:
-            printk("WARNING: x2APIC cluster mode is not supported %s interrupt remapping -"
-                   " forcing phys mode\n",
-                   iommu_intremap == iommu_intremap_off ? "without"
-                                                        : "with restricted");
-            x2apic_phys = true;
-            break;
-
-        case iommu_intremap_full:
-            break;
+            printk(XENLOG_INFO "ACPI FADT forcing x2APIC physical mode\n");
+            x2apic_mode = physical;
         }
+        else
+            x2apic_mode = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X2APIC_MIXED) ? mixed
+                          : (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X2APIC_PHYSICAL) ? physical
+                                                                : cluster);
+    }
 
-    if ( x2apic_phys )
+    if ( x2apic_mode == physical )
         return &apic_x2apic_phys;
 
+    if ( x2apic_mode == cluster && iommu_intremap != iommu_intremap_full )
+    {
+        printk("WARNING: x2APIC cluster mode is not supported %s interrupt remapping -"
+               " forcing mixed mode\n",
+               iommu_intremap == iommu_intremap_off ? "without"
+                                                    : "with restricted");
+        x2apic_mode = mixed;
+    }
+
     if ( !this_cpu(cluster_cpus) )
     {
         update_clusterinfo(NULL, CPU_UP_PREPARE,
@@ -260,7 +308,7 @@ const struct genapic *__init apic_x2apic_probe(void)
         register_cpu_notifier(&x2apic_cpu_nfb);
     }
 
-    return &apic_x2apic_cluster;
+    return x2apic_mode == cluster ? &apic_x2apic_cluster : &apic_x2apic_mixed;
 }
 
 void __init check_x2apic_preenabled(void)