On 26/11/18 16:47, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > stimers_pending optimization only helps us to avoid multiple > kvm_make_request() calls. This doesn't happen very often and these > calls are very cheap in the first place, remove open-coded version of > stimer_mark_pending() from kvm_hv_notify_acked_sint(). I wouldn't say very cheap, but still relatively cheap compared to a vmexit. Paolo