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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bsd@redhat.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: guest exit microoptimization
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 18:45:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7399af63-a751-a2dd-d8a4-77aee0bf5996@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1466065297-4644-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>



On 16/06/2016 10:21, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This saves about 20 clock cycles per vmexit by avoiding a
> local_irq_save/restore pair.  The price is that nested VMX will break
> with KVM hosts < 3.16, because the "acknowledge interrupt on exit"
> feature becomes mandatory.  What do you think?

I'm pushing these patches.

Paolo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-01 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-16  8:21 [RFC PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: guest exit microoptimization Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-16  8:21 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: always use "acknowledge interrupt on exit" Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-16 21:53   ` Bandan Das
2016-06-16  8:21 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: use __kvm_guest_exit Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-16 16:43   ` David Matlack
2016-06-16 16:47     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-16 17:03       ` David Matlack
2016-06-16 17:21         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-16 22:01   ` Bandan Das
2016-06-17  5:20     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-01 16:45 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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