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Re: [PATCH 3/5] KVM: add KVM_USER_EXIT vm ioctl for userspace exit

From Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 3/5] KVM: add KVM_USER_EXIT vm ioctl for userspace exit
Date 2015-08-05 15:40 +0200
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On 05/08/2015 15:21, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> +	kvm_for_each_vcpu(idx, vcpu, kvm)
> +		if (vcpu->vcpu_id == vcpu_id) {
> +			kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_EXIT, vcpu);
> +			kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
> +
> +			return 0;
> +		}
> +

Why not a vcpu ioctl?  kvm_for_each_vcpu can become pretty expensive if
you have a few dozen VCPUs.

Paolo
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[PATCH 0/5] KVM: optimize userspace exits with a new ioctl Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2015-08-05 15:30 +0200
  [PATCH 4/5] KVM: optimize common cases in KVM_USER_EXIT Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2015-08-05 15:30 +0200
  [PATCH 1/5] KVM: add kvm_has_request wrapper Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2015-08-05 15:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3/5] KVM: add KVM_USER_EXIT vm ioctl for userspace exit Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2015-08-05 15:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/5] KVM: add KVM_USER_EXIT vm ioctl for userspace exit Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2015-08-05 15:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/5] KVM: add KVM_USER_EXIT vm ioctl for userspace exit Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2015-08-05 15:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3/5] KVM: add KVM_USER_EXIT vm ioctl for userspace exit Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2015-08-05 15:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/5] KVM: add KVM_USER_EXIT vm ioctl for userspace exit Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2015-08-05 15:40 +0200
  [PATCH 5/5] KVM: x86: add request_exits debug counter Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2015-08-05 15:30 +0200

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