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Paolo Bonzini committed ad3610919e6
kvm: x86: avoid atomic operations on APICv vmentry On some benchmarks (e.g. netperf with ioeventfd disabled), APICv posted interrupts turn out to be slower than interrupt injection via KVM_REQ_EVENT. This patch optimizes a bit the IRR update, avoiding expensive atomic operations in the common case where PI.ON=0 at vmentry or the PIR vector is mostly zero. This saves at least 20 cycles (1%) per vmexit, as measured by kvm-unit-tests' inl_from_qemu test (20 runs): | enable_apicv=1 | enable_apicv=0 | mean stdev | mean stdev ----------|-----------------|------------------ before | 5826 32.65 | 5765 47.09 after | 5809 43.42 | 5777 77.02 Of course, any change in the right column is just placebo effect. :) The savings are bigger if interrupts are frequent. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>