RFC: Dedicated Clock Source and Clock Event Source for HS-mode and VS-mode
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Siqi Zhao
Hello Everyone,
We have come up with some ideas about improving the performance of virtual machines on the RISC-V architecture. Here’s the first piece which proposes a dedicated clock source and a clock event source for HS-mode and VS-mode, respectively. We extended the current idea of the mtime and mtimecmp CSRs and combined with the current hypervisor extension to come up with new CSRs and aliases. Evaluations on QEMU show that the proposed extension leads to performance improvement.
The attached document details the proposal. Any comments are welcome.
Regards, Siqi |
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andrew@...
Note that Section 3 of your proposal already exists. The hypervisor spec says, "The htimedelta CSR is a read/write register that contains the delta between the value of the time CSR and the value returned in VS-mode or VU-mode." In other words, reading the time CSR when V=1 does what you propose.
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