On 07/12/2012 02:54 AM, sheng qiu wrote: > Hi all, > > i saw lots of APIC_TMICT exits while running a linux guest with > assigned NIC. The APIC_TMICT exits is only a little fewer than the > number of injected interrupts while handling network traffic on the > assigned NIC. > The network traffic was generated by running netperf on another > machine targeted at the VM. > > Is this normal? if not, what kind of problem may cause it? I'm guessing the driver sets a timer on every interrupt. What is the value written? If it's large, perhaps we can set some slack on the timer so it's not re-set every time. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- 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