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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: avoid redundant REQ_EVENT
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On 15/12/2016 15:30, Radim Krčmář wrote:
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> One useless round of KVM_REQ_EVENT is not going change nested
> performance by much and it is not the only thing we could improve wrt.
> TPR ... I would just leave it for now and take care of it when we
> * don't to update PPR at all with APICv -- it is already correct
> * drop the KVM_REQ_EVENT with flex priority, because lower TPR cannot
> unmask an interrupt

I agree. I still don't like the patch very much, because I feel like an
explicit state machine ("can KVM_REQ_EVENT do anything?") would be more
maintainable. But if I don't come up with anything we'll go with this
patch.

Paolo

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