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When I run ebizzy in a 32 vCPUs guest on a 32 pCPUs Xeon box, I can observe ~8000 kvm_wait_lapic_expire CurAvg/s through kvm_stat tool even if the advance tscdeadline hrtimer expiration is disabled. Each call to wait_lapic_expire() will consume ~70 cycles when a timer fires since apic_timer_expire() will set expired_tscdeadline and then wait_lapic_expire() will do some caculation before bailing out. So total ~175us per second is lost on this 3.2Ghz machine. This patch reduces the overhead by skipping the function wait_lapic_expire() when lapic_timer_advance is disabled. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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