Re: [PATCHv4 0/5] apic: eoi optimization support

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Wed May 16 2012 - 11:45:56 EST


On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:45:50PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> I'm looking at reducing the interrupt overhead for virtualized guests:
> some workloads spend a large part of their time processing interrupts.
> This patchset supplies infrastructure to reduce the IRQ ack overhead on
> x86: the idea is to add an eoi_write callback that we can then optimize
> without touching other apic functionality.

Ugh. I lost first part of the patchset.
Sorry.
Will send a fixed one now.
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