Hi, Avi, Both Eddie and Marcello once suggested vEOI optimization by skipping heavy-weight instruction decode, which reduces vEOI overhead greatly:
http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg18619.html http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg36691.html Though virtual x2apic serves similar purpose, it depends on guest OS to support x2apic. Many Windows versions don't support x2apic though, including Win7, Windows server before 2008 R2, etc. Given that virtualization need support various OS versions, any chance to incorporate above vEOI optimization in KVM as an alternative to boost performance when guest doesn't support x2apic? Thanks Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
