KVM: x86: use guest_exit_irqoff
This gains a few clock cycles per vmexit. On Intel there is no need
anymore to enable the interrupts in vmx_handle_external_intr, since
we are using the "acknowledge interrupt on exit" feature. AMD
needs to do that, and must be careful to avoid the interrupt shadow.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index 5ff2927..5bfdbbf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -4935,6 +4935,12 @@
static void svm_handle_external_intr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
local_irq_enable();
+ /*
+ * We must have an instruction with interrupts enabled, so
+ * the timer interrupt isn't delayed by the interrupt shadow.
+ */
+ asm("nop");
+ local_irq_disable();
}
static void svm_sched_in(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)