Hi, All I started a VM, and nothing running in that VM. Then using “perf stat” to collect some data, interesting thing is the number of “kvm_apic” is greater than that of “kvm_exit”. My understanding is “kvm:kvm_exit” is the number of vmexit, while “kvm_apic” is the number of vmexit due to apic access. Is my understanding right? If so, in what condition the number of “kvm_apic” could be greater than that of “kvm_exit”? [root@centos_ivy ~]# perf stat -a -e 'kvm:kvm_exit' -e 'kvm:kvm_apic' -e "kvm:kvm_apic_ipi" sleep 1s Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1s': 47,251 kvm:kvm_exit [100.00%] 52,650 kvm:kvm_apic [100.00%] 4,519 kvm:kvm_apic_ipi 1.001805327 seconds time elapsed My configuration is : ivybridge-EP, Centos, kernel 3.15.0. Many thanks. Thx, Xuekun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html