Browse Source

KVM: PPC: Disable MSR_FEx for Cell hosts

Cell can't handle MSR_FE0 and MSR_FE1 too well. It gets dog slow.
So let's just override the guest whenever we see one of the two and mask them
out. See commit ddf5f75a16b3e7460ffee881795aa168dffcd0cf for reference.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Alexander Graf 15 years ago
parent
commit
05b0ab1c0b
1 changed files with 4 additions and 0 deletions
  1. 4 0
      arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c

+ 4 - 0
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c

@@ -357,6 +357,10 @@ void kvmppc_set_pvr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 pvr)
 	    !strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->platform, "ppc970"))
 		vcpu->arch.hflags |= BOOK3S_HFLAG_DCBZ32;
 
+	/* Cell performs badly if MSR_FEx are set. So let's hope nobody
+	   really needs them in a VM on Cell and force disable them. */
+	if (!strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->platform, "ppc-cell-be"))
+		to_book3s(vcpu)->msr_mask &= ~(MSR_FE0 | MSR_FE1);
 }
 
 /* Book3s_32 CPUs always have 32 bytes cache line size, which Linux assumes. To