This is the result of cleaning up the places that set REQ_EVENT unnecessarily. The savings on self-IPI kvm-unit-tests are: self_ipi_sti_nop ~300 clock cycles self_ipi_sti_hlt ~300 clock cycles self_ipi_tpr ~400 clock cycles self_ipi_tpr_sti_nop ~700 clock cycles self_ipi_tpr_sti_hlt ~700 clock cycles which is in the 5-10% range. Please help me comparing this series with "[PATCH v2] KVM: x86: avoid redundant REQ_EVENT" on the real workload! Thanks, Paolo Paolo Bonzini (6): KVM: x86: add VCPU stat for KVM_REQ_EVENT processing KVM: lapic: do not set KVM_REQ_EVENT unnecessarily on EOI KVM: vmx: speed up TPR below threshold vmexits KVM: lapic: remove unnecessary KVM_REQ_EVENT on PPR update KVM: lapic: do not set KVM_REQ_EVENT unnecessarily on PPR update KVM: lapic: do not scan IRR when delivering an interrupt arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 ++ 5 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1 -- 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