Re: [PATCH 3/5] KVM: add KVM_USER_EXIT vm ioctl for userspace exit

From: Radim KrÄmÃÅ
Date: Wed Aug 05 2015 - 09:34:50 EST


2015-08-05 15:29+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 05/08/2015 15:21, Radim KrÄmÃÅ wrote:
>> + kvm_for_each_vcpu(idx, vcpu, kvm)
>> + if (vcpu->vcpu_id == vcpu_id) {
>> + kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_EXIT, vcpu);
>> + kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
>> +
>> + return 0;
>> + }
>> +
>
> Why not a vcpu ioctl? kvm_for_each_vcpu can become pretty expensive if
> you have a few dozen VCPUs.

Yeah, it will be slow, the only bright side is low frequency of calls.

vcpu ioctl should only be issued by the vcpu thread so it would
significantly limit use.
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