I did a quick bisect yesterday after noticing that my VMs started to take 100% cpu time. Looks like we don't ignore SIPIs that are received while the CPU isn't waiting for them, and that makes KVM think that CPU always has pending events which makes it never enter an idle state. Best regards, Maxim Levitsky Maxim Levitsky (1): KVM: x86: ignore SIPIs that are received while not in wait-for-sipi state arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 2.26.2