Re: lots of APIC_TMICT exit on VM with assigned NIC

2012-07-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 07/12/2012 08:32 PM, sheng qiu wrote: > thanks for your reply. > the value is very large. Can you provide samples? If it's large and fairly constant it means a timer keeps being pushed back by the interrupts/ > is there anyway that i can avoid such > frequent exits due to APIC_TMICT? do i

Re: lots of APIC_TMICT exit on VM with assigned NIC

2012-07-12 Thread sheng qiu
thanks for your reply. the value is very large. is there anyway that i can avoid such frequent exits due to APIC_TMICT? do i need to modify some codes in kvm kernel module or adapt some parameters? Thanks, Sheng On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 07/12/2012 02:54 AM, sheng

Re: lots of APIC_TMICT exit on VM with assigned NIC

2012-07-12 Thread Avi Kivity
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 wa