Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: LAPIC: Fix lapic timer injection delay

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Jul 03 2017 - 04:16:42 EST




On 03/07/2017 10:08, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> Yeah, I'm not entirely satisfied with it but it's working: start_sw
>> timer will see ktimer->pending and do nothing.
>>
>> But thinking more about it, maybe the "if (r)" can be omitted
>> completely? We need to benchmark it but it can be done.
> "if (r)" makes codes more understandable, in addition, calling expired
> the pending timer here looks weird though ktimer->pending.

We can remove the call to apic_timer_expired too (sorry if I was too
terse). :) start_sw_period and start_sw_tscdeadline would take care of it.

Paolo