Re: [PATCH v2 43/43] KVM: VMX: Don't do full kick when handling posted interrupt wakeup

Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:16:30 +0000

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On 09/10/21 04:12, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> When waking vCPUs in the posted interrupt wakeup handling, do exactly
> that and no more.  There is no need to kick the vCPU as the wakeup
> handler just need to get the vCPU task running, and if it's in the guest
> then it's definitely running.

And more important, the transition from blocking to running will have 
gone through sync_pir_to_irr, thus checking ON and manually moving the 
vector from PIR to RVI.

Paolo