These four patches were part of an optimization patchset I've been neglecting, but are equally useful as preparation for fixing the PIC-APIC wiring issues. Avi Kivity (4): KVM: i8259: reduce excessive abstraction for pic_irq_request() KVM: i8259: simplify pic_irq_request() calling sequence KVM: Add mini-API for vcpu->requests KVM: Reduce atomic operations on vcpu->requests arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c | 18 ++++++------------ arch/x86/kvm/irq.h | 4 ---- arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 6 +++--- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/timer.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 27 +++++++++++++-------------- include/linux/kvm_host.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 4 ++-- 10 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) -- 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