Hi,
Suppose I use two cores, smp environment.I am wondering when QEMU switches CPUs 
and the time when the interrupt is raised.I've observed that every time 
cpu_interrupt is executed, there will be a cpu switch.CPU switch means the 
current running vCPU will stop and the other vCPU will run, since QEMU runs on 
1 physical CPU. (The term "CPU" I mention in the following is vCPU).That means 
the CPU cannot handle the interrupt right after the interrupt is raised even 
the interrupt goes to it, but it needs to switch to the second CPU.And next 
time when the CPU is switched again, it can start to handle the pending 
interrupt.Is that right? Once the CPU executes cpu_interrupt function, is it 
forced to switch to anther CPU immediately? Or it can continues to run its TB 
before it consumes all its instructions counts.A more general question is what 
triggers CPU switch? I know there is an upper bound for instruction counts (not 
100% sure). What else?Any information and guidance is very appreciated.Thanks.
Regards,Tommy                                     
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