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Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: avoid redundant REQ_EVENT

From Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: avoid redundant REQ_EVENT
Date 2016-12-15 15:40 +0100
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On 15/12/2016 15:30, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> 
> 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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[PATCH v2] KVM: x86: avoid redundant REQ_EVENT Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com> - 2016-12-14 12:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: avoid redundant REQ_EVENT Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2016-12-14 22:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: avoid redundant REQ_EVENT Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-12-14 23:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: avoid redundant REQ_EVENT Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2016-12-15 15:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: avoid redundant REQ_EVENT Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-12-15 15:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: avoid redundant REQ_EVENT Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-12-18 22:10 +0100

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