KVM: Isolate apicv_update_lock and apicv_nr_irq_window_req in a cacheline
Force apicv_update_lock and apicv_nr_irq_window_req to reside in their own
cacheline to avoid generating significant contention due to false sharing
when KVM is contantly creating IRQ windows. E.g. apicv_inhibit_reasons is
read on every VM-Enter; disabled_exits is read on page faults, on PAUSE
exits, if a vCPU is scheduled out, etc.; kvmclock_offset is read every time
a vCPU needs to refresh kvmclock, and so on and so forth.
Isolating the write-mostly fields from all other (read-mostly) fields
improves performance by 7-8% when running netperf TCP_RR between two guests
on the same physical host when using an in-kernel PIT in re-inject mode.
Reported-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) <naveen@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/yrxhngndj37edud6tj5y3vunaf7nirwor4n63yf4275wdocnd3@c77ujgialc6r
Tested-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) <naveen@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123224514.2509129-5-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>