Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] x86/kvm/hyper-v: avoid open-coding stimer_mark_pending() in kvm_hv_notify_acked_sint()

From: Roman Kagan
Date: Tue Nov 27 2018 - 03:49:47 EST


On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 04:47:32PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> stimers_pending optimization only helps us to avoid multiple
> kvm_make_request() calls. This doesn't happen very often and these
> calls are very cheap in the first place, remove open-coded version of
> stimer_mark_pending() from kvm_hv_notify_acked_sint().

Frankly speaking, I've yet to see a guest that configures more than one
SynIC timer. So it was indeed a bit of overengineering in the first
place.

> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c | 12 +++---------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>