Re: lots of APIC_TMICT exit on VM with assigned NIC

[sheng qiu]

thanks for your reply.
the value is very large. is there anyway that i  can avoid such
frequent exits due to APIC_TMICT? do i need to modify some codes in
kvm kernel module or adapt some parameters?

Thanks,
Sheng

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/12/2012 02:54 AM, sheng qiu wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> i saw lots of APIC_TMICT exits while running a linux guest with
>> assigned NIC. The APIC_TMICT exits is only a little fewer than the
>> number of injected interrupts while handling network traffic on the
>> assigned NIC.
>> The network traffic was generated by running netperf on another
>> machine targeted at the VM.
>>
>> Is this normal? if not, what kind of problem may cause it?
>
> I'm guessing the driver sets a timer on every interrupt.
>
> What is the value written?  If it's large, perhaps we can set some slack
> on the timer so it's not re-set every time.
>
>
> --
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
>
>



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