KVM: APIC: avoid instruction emulation for EOI writes
authorKevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:56:17 +0000 (13:56 +0300)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:52:17 +0000 (19:52 +0300)
Instruction emulation for EOI writes can be skipped, since sane
guest simply uses MOV instead of string operations. This is a nice
improvement when guest doesn't support x2apic or hyper-V EOI
support.

a single VM bandwidth is observed with ~8% bandwidth improvement
(7.4Gbps->8Gbps), by saving ~5% cycles from EOI emulation.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
<Based on earlier work from>:
Signed-off-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

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