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In IOAPIC fixed delivery mode instead of flushing the scan requests to all vCPUs, we should only send the requests to vCPUs specified within the destination field. This patch introduces kvm_get_dest_vcpus_mask() API which retrieves an array of target vCPUs by using kvm_apic_map_get_dest_lapic() and then based on the vcpus_idx, it sets the bit in a bitmap. However, if the above fails kvm_get_dest_vcpus_mask() finds the target vCPUs by traversing all available vCPUs. Followed by setting the bits in the bitmap. If we had different vCPUs in the previous request for the same redirection table entry then bits corresponding to these vCPUs are also set. This to done to keep ioapic_handled_vectors synchronized. This bitmap is then eventually passed on to kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() to generate a masked request only for the target vCPUs. This would enable us to reduce the latency overhead on isolated vCPUs caused by the IPI to process due to KVM_REQ_IOAPIC_SCAN. Suggested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.