We want to have kvm_make_all_cpus_request() to be an optmized version of kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm) { kvm_make_request(vcpu, request); kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu); } and kvm_vcpu_kick() wakes up the target vcpu. We know which requests do not need the wake up and use it to optimize the loop. Thanks to that, this patch doesn't change the behavior of current users (the all don't need the wake up) and only prepares for future where the wake up is going to be needed. I think that most requests do not need the wake up, so we would flip the bit then. kvm_vcpu_kick() will get this condition after it is merged with kvm_make_request() because we currently don't know which request is being kicked. Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> --- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index e5d52b46b531..3772f7dcc72d 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -186,6 +186,9 @@ bool kvm_make_all_cpus_request(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int req) /* Set ->requests bit before we read ->mode. */ smp_mb__after_atomic(); + if (!(req & KVM_REQUEST_NO_WAKEUP)) + kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu); + if (cpus != NULL && cpu != -1 && cpu != me && kvm_vcpu_exiting_guest_mode(vcpu) != OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE) cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, cpus); -- 2.12.2