On 01/14/2015 12:12 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > The problem: > > On -RT, an emulated LAPIC timer instances has the following path: > > 1) hard interrupt > 2) ksoftirqd is scheduled > 3) ksoftirqd wakes up vcpu thread > 4) vcpu thread is scheduled > > This extra context switch introduces unnecessary latency in the > LAPIC path for a KVM guest.
> This patch reduces the average latency in my tests from 14us to 11us. > > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
